Black Currant
Scientific name: Ribes nigrum L.
Diagnostic features
Shrub to 2m.
Leaves as in Ribes rubrum but with more pointed main lobes, scented when crushed.
Flowers in pendent racemes, 6-10mm across, greenish-yellow or tinged with purple; hypanthium deeply cup-shaped, pubescent; berry mostly 10-15mm across, black, without bloom.
Chromosome number: 2n=16.
Habitat
Probably introduced-naturalized; woods, hedges and shady streamsides, much grown and usually obviously relict or escaped.
Distribution
Throughout most of British Isles; Europe.
This species is keyed out on Page 2783 in the Text Key. |
