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Currants
Every rated Ribes record is fire-resistant — 3 of 12 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 12 records carrying 88 evidence rows from 27 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Flowering currant Ribes Fire-resistant Consensus 13 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
2 species
Awaiting evidence
9 species
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Blackcurrant Awaiting evidence Ribes nigrum - Ribes magellanicum Awaiting evidence Ribes magellanicum
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Golden Currant Awaiting evidence Ribes aureum - Ribes cucullatum Awaiting evidence Ribes cucullatum
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Redflower Currant Awaiting evidence Ribes sanguineum -
Clove-scented Currant Awaiting evidence Ribes odoratum - Currant Awaiting evidence Ribes triste
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Currant, Prickly Awaiting evidence Ribes lacustre - Evergreen current Awaiting evidence Ribes viburnifolium
About currants
Corpus context. Ribes is the directory's #42 largest of 550 genus groups: 12 records carrying 88 evidence rows from 27 cited sources, recorded as shrub , hardy across USDA zones 1–7. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Ribes: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.