Black Currant Seeds
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Viola Black Currant
Viola Black Currant
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Viola bears large black currants with a comparatively sweet flavour when fully ripe. Grower descriptions note a mild grape impression and seeds that are less noticeable when eating the fruit fresh.
Its reported midsummer crop offers a useful contrast with sharper flavoured black currants grown mainly for preserves. Those flavour comparisons describe fully ripe fruit; local weather and harvest timing affect sweetness.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 3
- Mature size
- About 3 to 5 ft tall and wide
- Fruit
- Large black berries with seeds that are less noticeableGood for eating fresh
- Flavour
- Comparatively sweet when fully ripeGrowers note a mild grape flavour
- Season
- MidsummerFrom reports elsewhere
- Site and soil
- Full sun or part shade in moist soil that drains wellMore sun means more fruit
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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
- 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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