Biology:List of plants known as gooseberry

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Gooseberry most often refers to cultivated plants from two species of the genus Ribes:

  • Ribes uva-crispa native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia.
  • Ribes hirtellum, American gooseberry
  • Hybrids between Ribes hirtellum and Ribes uva-crispa, including most of the modern gooseberry cultivars

The common name is also used for:

Ribes

Plants unrelated to Ribes

  • Byrsonima lucida
  • Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
  • Chinese gooseberry, or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia
  • Curio herreanus, a succulent plant in the aster family that superficially bears resemblance to gooseberry
  • Pereskia aculeata, Barbados gooseberry, an unusual cactus
  • Family Phyllanthaceae:
    • Phyllanthus emblica, Indian gooseberry, emblic
    • Jamaican gooseberry tree, a herb-like plant of the family Phyllanthaceae
    • Otaheite gooseberry, the only tree with edible fruit in the family Phyllanthaceae
    • Star gooseberry
  • In the family Solanaceae:
  • Withania somnifera, Poison gooseberry