Unknown fruit bush - any ideas?

[shmeen]

Hi,

We've got 2 rows of berry bushes growing on the allotment plot we took over last autumn and we don't know what they are! They've got a few green berries on and I've attached a photo - does anyone know what they might be?

Thanks,
Shmeen

[T8Ter]

Hi Shmeen,
It's currant, (red/white or black) but you'll find out which colour when the fruit ripens.

[FB.]

Yup - currant.
Looks more like a blackcurrant than a whitecurrant - based on what I've seen.

[shmeen]

That's great - thanks for the quick replies!

[peanut]

Yep pretty sure it's a Blackcurrant.

[ohbeary]

Yup, big berries, probly blackcurrant, white and red have smaller berries in racemes.

[Alison]

Agree it's a currant and I wish my blackcurrant had berries that fat!

[chris]

Birds around here seem to be stripping the (green) berries off mine - you may wanna protect it some how! (netting?)

[gojiberry]

I don't think it is a pure currant as the fruit just doesn't hang right, it should be in strings for any of the currants. I would say it is the cross between a gooseberry and a blackcurrant called a casseille. Only my opinion but he final fruit will tell.

Ian

[WrexTheDragon]

Blackcurrant gets my vote, they are not red/white currants.

[rustylady]

Looks like blackcurrant to me. Just like the ones I got on my lottie donated by TS last year.

[Glutton4...]

Have the same dilemma in a Customer's garden; She said what? I said Currant. She said what colour? I said wait n' see!

Then had to wedge the branches higher with a stick, as her Chooks were jumping up to eat them!

[Jax]

They look like fatter versions of my currants. I have the same problem, I have red and black but no idea which one is which. One will go red and one will go black