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Is this a blackcurrant bush?

melanie 568melanie 568 LeicestershirePosts: 48
in Plants
Does anyone know if these berrys are blackcurrants?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Central Norfolk UKPosts: 55,117
    They look like black currants to me ... 
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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Leicestershire, UKPosts: 7,925
    Me too.
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  • melanie 568melanie 568 LeicestershirePosts: 48
    I just dared to try one and they taste ok, and I'm not dead yet...!
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 13,561
    Me three. Blackcurrant leaves smell blackcurranty if you crush them .  They are a bit late, I picked all the ones I beat the blackbirds to in the middle of July.
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  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 2,278
    edited 24 August
    I recently found out that flowering currant has fruit that looks very like blackcurrant, only a bit dusty-looking.  They are edible, but not worth it, they taste of nothing much.
    That might be what you have there.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet PeterboroughPosts: 26,021
    I think josusa is right here. Looks like Ribes sanguineum fruit to me
  • melanie 568melanie 568 LeicestershirePosts: 48
    yes, I think so too, it didn't taste of much and the flesh was white, rather than the juicy tartness I remember from a blackcurrant
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