What is this fruit?

[Libertyandlivelihood]

Help from the experts needed!

 

Just took on an allotment and has many fruits on it but can't identify this one, any help please?

 

[hawkfanz]

looks like a black gooseberry

[bluesj]

Looks like a black currant bush thats not trying very hard

[harrycatcat1]

looks like a black gooseberry

 

The leaves look like gooseberry to me anyway and the fruit looks gooseberry

Edited June 26, 2017 by harrycatcat1

[Walker570]

Red gooseberry.

Probably Hinnonmaki variety

Edited June 26, 2017 by Walker570

[Libertyandlivelihood]

Never heard of a black gooseberry till now, there are green hairy gooseberries also, these red/black ones are not furry and feel similar to grapes.

[figgy]

As above but I can't remember the sodding name of it, very tasty though.

[ditchman]

blackcurrant..

As above but I can't remember the sodding name of it, very tasty though.

 

 

blackcurrant reverting to type maybe...

Edited June 26, 2017 by ditchman

[Walker570]

Google red gooseberry for all the details.

[Libertyandlivelihood]

Will have a closer look at the fruit tomorrow, don't appear to have the sort of veins that show on Google images and the green gooseberry.

Cheers all.

Edited June 26, 2017 by Libertyandlivelihood

[panoma1]

Gooseberry!

[KFC]

It's only the hairs on a Goosegog that stops it from being a Grape.

[JDog]

Blackcurrant.

[CharlieT]

Blackcurrant.

[fortune]

redcurrent. link from google. common garden fruit for redcurrent jelly.

 

http://www.swanleyvillagevegetables.co.uk/ekmps/shops/swanleyvillage1/images/3-redcurrent-bush-junifer-200-p[ekm]204x204[ekm].jpg

Edited June 26, 2017 by fortune

[oldypigeonpopper]

hello, my money is on blackcurrents picked loads in the school holidays for fruit farms in our village

Edited June 26, 2017 by oldypigeonpopper

[Duckandswing]

Gooseberry

[figgy]

It's a gooseberry but they were crossed with a black currant or some such . There is a common name for them but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. They're very nice to eat where normal goosgogs can be tart the red ones are sweeter.

Edited June 26, 2017 by figgy

[Curly87]

Jostaberry, my granny used to grow a lot which we used to pick as kids!

[jloc]

If there are thorns on the bush, gooseberry for sure

 

I have a couple of these in the plot, nice and sweet when ripe !

[amateur]

Jostaberry, my granny used to grow a lot which we used to pick as kids!

I would agree with Curly87.

We have one in our garden

[Lampwick]

I would agree with Curly87.

We have one in our garden

Yep, I have plenty on my allotment! You can take cuttings from them as easy as pie!

[BRYAN3]

I think Jostaberry also. I have just scrapped three bushes that produced twelve berries in three growing seasons.

[amateur]

Yep, I have plenty on my allotment! You can take cuttings from them as easy as pie!

I think Jostaberry also. I have just scrapped three bushes that produced twelve berries in three growing seasons.

Shame they don't produce enough fruit for a pie.

Ours only does a few berries a year

[harrycatcat1]

Jostaberry

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jostaberry Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Core eudicots Order: Saxifragales Family: Grossulariaceae Genus: Ribes Species: R. ×nidigrolaria Binomial name Ribes ×nidigrolaria

Rud. Bauer & A. Bauer

Inflorescence

The jostaberry is a complex-cross fruit bush in the Ribes genus, involving three original species, the black currant R. nigrum, the North American coastal black gooseberry R. divaricatum, and the European gooseberry R. uva-crispa.^[1] It is similar to Ribes × culverwellii, the Jochelbeere, which is descended from just two of these species, R. nigrum and R. uva-crispa.^[2]

Description

The cultivated plants are tetraploid.^[3] They are descended from two separate first-generation crosses, both of which produced very few fruit.^[4] Fertile tetraploids were produced using colchicine.^[4] The name Jostaberry was created via combining the German words for blackcurrant and gooseberry, namely Johannisbeere ("Jo") and Stachelbeere ("Sta"). Following German pronunciation of "J", it may be pronounced "yostaberry" in English. The first cultivar was made available to the public in 1977. A number of varieties have been developed since then by various developers.

The nearly black berry, which is smaller than a gooseberry and a bit larger than a blackcurrant, is edible both raw and cooked. It is described as having a taste intermediate between a gooseberry and a blackcurrant, with the gooseberry flavor more dominant in the unripe fruit, and the blackcurrant notes developing as the fruit ripens. The ripe fruit will hang on the bush in good condition through late summer, but is very popular with birds. The somewhat unripe fruit can be used in cooking recipes as a gooseberry. Like blackcurrants the fruit freezes well, and like many other members of the Ribes genus it is rich in Vitamin C.

Commercial production of jostaberries is limited because they are not well suited to mechanical harvesting.^[4] Compared to most other fruits, harvesting jostaberries is relatively labor-intensive per kilogram. Although harder to pluck than blackcurrants, the plant is thornless.

The plant itself grows to a maximum height of about 2 m, flowering in mid-spring, with fruit setting and ripening on a similar timetable to the blackcurrant. The plant displays hybrid vigor, growing and fruiting well and being resistant to a number of common diseases afflicting other Ribes. In particular the plant is resistant to American gooseberry mildew, blackcurrant leaf spot, white pine blister rust, and big bud gall mite. Flowers are hermaphrodite and the plant is self-fertile following insect pollination. Propagation is usually by cuttings, rather than by seeds.

 

I have to admit I have never heard of a Jostaberry.