Taxon: Ribes nigrum L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Ribes nigrum var. europaeum (no accessions)
• Ribes nigrum var. nigrum (2 accessions)
• Ribes nigrum var. sibiricum (3 accessions)

Common names:

• black currant   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• hei cha biao zi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• cassis   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – French
  
• cassissier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• gadellier noir   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• groseillier noir   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Ahlbeere   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• schwarze Johannisbeere   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• ribes nero   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  
• kuro-fusa-suguri   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• kuro-suguri   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• groselheira-preta   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• groselheira-negra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• casis   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• grosellero negro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• svarta vinbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Flower Oils)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (white pine blister rust fide L. Gilbert, pers. comm.)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of black currant   (fide Temp Fruit Cr Breed 179. 2008)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of gooseberry   (based on crosses with members of subg. Grossularia producing all sterile hybrids fide Pl Breed Rev 29:152. 2007)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (for perfumes fide Flower Oils)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Eastern Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
  Mongolia: Mongolia [n.w.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland; Sweden
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Germany; Poland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Italy
  Southwestern Europe: France

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Heilongjiang, Nei Monggol, Xinjiang
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czech Republic; Switzerland
  Southeastern Europe: Italy; Slovenia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.]
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gilbert, L. 1998. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hjamarsson, I. & B. Wallace. 2007. Gooseberry and currant in Sweden: history and cultivar development. Pl. Breed. Rev. 29:145–175.
• Hummer, K. E. & A. Dale. 2010. Horticulture of Ribes. Forest Pathol. 40:251–263.
• Hummer, K. E. & D. L. Barney. 2002. Currants. HortTechnol. 12:377–387.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Pajaujis Anonis, D. 1993. Flower oils and floral compounds in perfumery.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ribes nigrum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ribes nigrum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ribes nigrum.

Synonyms:

• Ribes cyathiforme Pojark. [= Ribes nigrum var. sibiricum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Ribes nigrum f. chlorocarpum (Späth) Rehder
  
• (=) Ribes nigrum var. chlorocarpum Späth
  

Check other web resources for Ribes nigrum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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