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Willoughby Black Currant
Willoughby Black Currant
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Willoughby bears glossy black currants with a milder, sweeter flavour than many black currant varieties. The berries are useful fresh or cooked.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 3
- Mature size
- About 5 ft tall and 6 ft wide
- Fruit
- Glossy black berriesMilder and sweeter than many black currants
- Uses
- Fresh or cooked
- Site and soil
- Full sun or part shade in moist soil that drains wellMore sun means more fruit
Ripening
June to early July
Reported in Washington State
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.
Grow black currants from seed
A varied black currant population, rather than copies of this cultivar.
View Black Currant Seeds $7.95 CAD