Black Currant - Ribes nigrum

Shrub to the height of 1 or 1.5 metres. Leaves: Alternate, with fairly long stalks, strong-scented, blade with palmate venation, 3 to 5 lobed, with cordate base, toothed margins, hairless upper surface, and hairy underside covered with yellowish glands.

Inconspicuous flowers 8mm across, greenish-yellow, sometime tinged brown or purple; deeply cup-shaped; hairy.  Fruit: A black, fleshy berry.

Other currants

Leaves are very strongly scented

Photos of berries or close-up of flowers, and general photo of plant; note if strongly scented

Woodland and wet places often close to habitation.

Flowering time: May to June.

Deciduous shrub.

Widespread and fairly frequent as a naturalised escape from cultivation in Britain.

Occasional as a naturalised escape from cultivation in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 45 of the 617 tetrads.