Blackcurrent confusion

[glut]

I am a novice gardener who has inherited two well established blackcurrent bushes (or so I was told). The bushes in themselves seem quite healthy and there are lots of currents but I am not sure how I know they are edible? They are a nice colour but have lots of tiny short white bristles on them and the inside is pale green and 'seedy'. Has my bush been mislabled or is it all okay? any advice from all you fruiting experts would be appreciated.

[MaureenHall]

The insides of blackcurrants are green and seedy, but I've not heard of any with short white bristles on! How big are they? Could they be a type of gooseberry?

[glut]

They are about a centimetre in diameter and a lovely dark purple / black colour...

[Flummery]

Could be a dark gooseberry - or a jostaberry - a cross between the two. (How rude!)

[glut]

interesting. I have tried to attach a photo which might make it a bit easier, and shows some of the bristles towards the bottom of the current...
That being said I am useless with technology, so the picture may not make it...

[Headfry]

Careful it's not a 'Ribes' flowering currant!
These are usually more blue/grey in colour.

not sure what you have there!

[Flummery]

Definitely a bit too proggly to be a black currant!

[lainey lou]

Proggly? Good word! What does it mean?!

[Flummery]

Having prickles. (or proggles!)

[Snadger]

Don't think they are a jostaberry like these. (care of google images!)



Look to be some other type of blackcurrant/gooseberry hybrid though!

[Flummery]

A hairy hybrid! I've never seen a jostaberry in real life (or even google images!) I knew it was a hybrid though. Maybe there are more.

[swaine]

i thought at first a worcester berry, some people think hybrid but possibly a true american spieces,
ribes divitacarum (spelt wrong)
they have very dark blackcurrant/ gooseberry type fruits
but the branches dont look thorny from the pic,are they?
ive never seen a blackcurrant with thorny fruit, i grow nearly 30 different types of blackcurrant and most of the hybrids
all seedling from jostaberrys gooseberry/blackcurrants are supposed to be sterile so wont produce fruit,
the only thing i can think of is a very old goosberry veriety, the name of the veriety escapes me,
but please more pics of branches and fruit
(also looks like fuits like a blackcurrant on strings but only appears to have 1 fruit on it?,like a goosebrry, very strange
more info please.. this will bug me

[Tam]

It isn't a worcesterberry either perhaps it's a new cross !

[swaine]

possably a new cross.
possibly RIBES GYNOSBATI,
RIBES ROEZELII,

[swaine]

what were the flowers like, yellow and trumpet shaped( quite showy) or just normal inconspicuos currant flowers?