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Generally un-common native perennial shrub planted at restoration sites. Flowers are white and red. Blooms winter to spring. Stems are spiny. This plant is summer deciduous (loses most of it's leaves during the dry season). Can be confused with Ribes speciosum (fuchsia-flowered gooseberry) which has red flowers and bristles (small spines) along the stem between the larger spines.