Blackcurrant - Cultivars

Cultivars

There are many cultivars of blackcurrant, including:-

  • 'Amos Black'
  • 'Ben Alder'
  • 'Ben Avon'
  • 'Ben Dorain'
  • 'Ben Gairn'
  • 'Ben Hope'
  • 'Ben Loyal'
  • 'Ben More'
  • 'Ben Tirran'
  • 'Ben Zona'
  • 'Big Ben'
  • 'Boskoop Giant'
  • 'Cotswold Cross'
  • 'Wellington XXX'

The varieties 'Ben Connan', 'Ben Lomond' and 'Ben Sarek' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

New varieties are being developed continually to improve frost tolerance, disease resistance, machine harvesting, fruit quality, nutritional content and fruit flavour. Two new releases from a black currant breeding program in British Columbia, Canada - Blackcomb and Tahsis - were selected for their immunity to White Pine Blister Rust and frost tolerance.

Varieties producing green fruit, less strongly flavoured and sweeter than typical blackcurrants, are cultivated in Finland, where they are called "greencurrants" (viherherukka).

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