Orange Gooseberry

Grossularia pinetorum (Greene) Coville & Britton
Ribes pinetorum Greene, Bot. Gaz. 6: 157. 1881.
A shrub about 2 m. high, the branches glabrous and without prickles, but bearing stout nodal spines, these solitary or 2 or 3 together, chestnut-brown, straight or slightly curved, 12 mm. long or less. Leaves nearly orbicular in outline, thin, mostly 5-cleft, 2-3 cm. wide, glabrous and dull-green above, paler and sparingly puberulent beneath, at least on the stronger veins, sometimes slightly villous and glandular, the lobes obtuse, irregularly incised-serrate, the slender petioles as long as the blades or shorter, puberulent and with scattered glandular hairs ; peduncles puberulent, shorter than the petioles, erect, usually 1-flowered, rarely 2-flowered ; pedicels puberulent, somewhat shorter than the peduncles ; bracts thin, broad, ciliate ; ovary bristly ; hypanthium and sepals pilose, reddish-yellow ; sepals linear to linearspatulate, acute, reflexed, 6-8 mm. long, about twice as long as the cylindric-campanulate hypanthium, and one third longer than the petals and stamens; anthers ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm. long; style glabrous; berry purple, globose, 1-1.5 cm. in diameter, rather densely prickly.
Type locality : In woods of Pinus ponderosa^ in the higher elevations of the Pines Altos and Mogollon mountains, New Mexico.
Distribution : Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona,

Ribes pinetorum, the orange gooseberry, is a plant species native to Arizona and New Mexico. It grows in coniferous forests at elevations of 1900–3100 m.

Ribes pinetorum is a shrub up to 2 m (80 inches) tall, lacking prickles on the stems. Flowers are solitary, orange, tubular, hanging. Fruits are purple, spherical, about 13 mm (0.52 inch) across, with spines but considered by many people to be good-tasting.