Goosebery

The gooseberry is a species of Ribes, native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. It is one of several similar species in the subgenus Grossularia; for the other related species (e.g., North American Gooseberry Ribes hirtellum), see the genus page Ribes. Although usually placed as a subgenus within Ribes, a few taxonomists treat Grossularia as a separate genus, although hybrids between gooseberry and blackcurrant (e.g., the Jostaberry) are possible. The subgenus Grossularia differs somewhat from currants, chiefly in their spiny stems, and in that their flowers grow one to three together on short stems, not in racemes.

Gooseberry is an effective cure for many chronic diseases,including Diabities,respiratoey malfunctioning etc : It is the repository of Vitamin C, which is known to Aurveda for thousands of years. The gooseberry is the main ingedient in `chyavanaprasam'