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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.
It has a Saskatchewan story: Walter Willoughby of Parkside thought his currant was Boskoop Giant, but Honeywood Nursery grew that variety, judged his plant different and better fruited, and listed it under his name in 1941. Its gentle flavour makes a useful contrast with the sharply tart Eagle.
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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
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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.
Grow black currants from seed
A varied black currant population, rather than copies of this cultivar.
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