‘Dancing Tassels’
Chaprerral Currant
Horticultural selection from Ribes malvaceum var. malvaceum. ‘Dancing Tassels’ is a beautiful summer deciduous shrub for shady areas. Growing to 6 feet tall, this vase shaped shrub has soft green lobed leaves and peeling red-brown bark. The small, pinkish white flowers are jammed together on pendulous, chandelier-like 4 inch clusters. Dancing Tassels was selected for use in the garden by the Rancho santa Ana Botanical Garden because it sports the longest flower clusters of the species.
Plant in filtered shade. It is not finicky about soil type, but it needs good drainage. Grows best in sandy, coarse-grained or other fast draining soil. Selected for the garden on san Clemente Island by Bart O' Brien and Tom Hayduk of Rancho santa Ana Botanic Garden.
photos by Susan Frommer via PlantMaster
information thanks to Moosa Creek Nursery and the Theodore Payne Foundation via CalScape.org