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Champion Black Currant
Champion Black Currant
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Champion is a historic English black currant associated with W. H. Dunnett. The berries have black skins and firm, aromatic, yellowish flesh, with a milder flavour than many black currants and increasing sweetness as they finish ripening.
The crop matures unevenly late in the currant season, providing several pickings rather than a single harvest. The bush grows vigorously with an upright to spreading habit.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 3
- Mature size
- About 3 to 4 ft tallVigorous
- Fruit
- Firm berries with black skin and yellowish fleshMild and aromatic, nearly sweet when fully ripe
- Harvest
- Several pickingsRipens late and unevenly
- Site and soil
- Full sun or part shade in moist soil that drains wellMore sun means more fruit
More about this plant
A historic English currant
Champion is associated with W. H. Dunnett.
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Cold hardinessZone 3 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 3 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – CanadaPollination
Self-fertile; a second cultivar is not required.
- Titania Black Currant
A possible cross-pollination companion if flowering overlaps locally. This pairing has not been tested in Manitoba.
Grow black currants from seed
A varied black currant population, rather than copies of this cultivar.
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