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Definition of European black currant
1. Noun. Widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries.
Terms within: Black Currant
Group relationships: Genus Ribes, Ribes
Generic synonyms: Currant, Currant Bush
Lexicographical Neighbors of European Black Currant
Literary usage of European black currant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"European black currant. Fig. 611, Vol. I. Stem upright: branches thick, grayish:
Ivs. sprinkled with minute bright yellow resinous dots beneath: racemes ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"European black currant. Upright shrub, to 6 ft., with rather stout branches, of
strong disagreeable odor: Ivs. suborbicular, cordate, 3-5-lobed, with broad, ..."
3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"... Gooseberry is (d) R. rotundifolium Michx., Massachusetts to N. Carolina. e.
R. Digram L. (G. nigra Mill.). Europe. European black currant, Blackberry*, ..."
4. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"E. Flowers greenish white, in 5-10-flowered drooping racemes, ovary pubescent ;
fruit black, mawkish ; stems upright. GARDEN or European black currant ..."
5. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1860)
"The varieties of the Ribes nigrum, or European Black currant, have a peculiar
mushy odor, unpleasant to most persons, but which is lost when made into jelly ..."
6. Bush-fruits: A Horticultural Monograph of Raspberries, Blackberries by Fred Wallace Card (1898)
"... nearly as long as the calyx lobes; ovary smooth; fruit medium sized, roundish
oval, smooth, black, similar to the European black currant in flavor. ..."
7. Success with Small Fruits by Edward Payson Roe (1881)
"... and their fruit is naturally of better flavor than that of the European black
currant. Ribes Aureum is largely cultivated as an ornamental shrub, ..."
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