Shape | Bushy. |
Landscape | Cottage and informal gardens, in fruit gardens or as a specimen. |
Cultivation | Grow as a stolid busy in full sun in fertilized, moist but well-drained clay, loamy or sandy soils. |
Pests | Gall mites, gall midges and aphids. |
Notable Specimens | Olds College, Olds, Alberta, Canada |
Habitat | Horticultural origin. |
Bark/Stem Description | Smooth, semi-glossy woody bark. |
Leaf Description | Palmately lobed, semi-glossy evergreen leaves with minor serration. |
Flower Description | Terminal clusters of small, insignificant cup to bell-shaped flowers in spring. |
Fruit Description | Small, glossy, edible round black currant berries grow in clusters. |
Colour Description | Medium green to dark green foliage, small white flowers, dark brown bark and stems and deep blue to black berries. |
Texture Description | Medium. |