Fruit bush for ID

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mdjlucan

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Fruit bush for ID
« on: May 10, 2014, 09:54 »
Is this a blackcurrant bush
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Re: Fruit bush for ID
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2014, 10:08 »
No, looks like a bramble. Is it in flower now?

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Re: Fruit bush for ID
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2014, 10:09 »
Yes it did fruit last year like blackcurrant
« Last Edit: May 10, 2014, 10:10 by mdjlucan »

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Re: Fruit bush for ID
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2014, 10:11 »
It does look like a blackberry. Mine are beginning to flower now too, which is very early, but they will be fine
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Re: Fruit bush for ID
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2014, 17:45 »
Yes it did fruit last year like blackcurrant

But was the fruit a blackberry, or a blackcurrant?

[It sure looks like a blackberry / bramble and not at all like a blackcurrant]

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Re: Fruit bush for ID
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2014, 18:09 »
It looks like a blackberry/bramble of some kind.   

Try taking a look at Rubus Caesius (the European dewberry).  They grow wild on the sand dunes around here, and are lower and smaller than a blackberry.   The fruits have a lot fewer segments to them than a blackberry, often just 3 or 4,  but each segment is much larger and more purple. When the other segments have been eaten by birds or mice, the last remaining segment could look like a single blackcurrant.

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« Last Edit: May 10, 2014, 18:18 by Gardener and Rabbit »

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Re: Fruit bush for ID
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2014, 18:10 »
Rub the leaves as a black current has a very distinctive black current smell

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Re: Fruit bush for ID
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2014, 22:23 »
Definitely not blackcurrant leaves or flowers so not blackcurrant. If it's not a bramble my guess would be some sort of hybrid berry as many rubus will cross pollinate.


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