Blackcurrant vs Blackberry - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between blackcurrant and blackberry

is that blackcurrant is a shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries while blackberry is a fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

As a verb blackberry is

to gather or forage for blackberries.

As a proper noun BlackBerry is

a smartphone brand. The brand name of a wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, by BlackBerry Limited or by extension similar apparatus made by competitors.

blackcurrant

English

(wikipedia blackcurrant)

Noun

(en noun)

A shrub, Ribes nigrum , that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.

* 1993 , R. D. Davidson, 19: The vegetation of Lough Neagh wetlands'', R.B. Wood, R.V. Smith (editors), ''Lough Neagh: The Ecology of a Multipurpose Water Resource , Monographae Biologicae: Volume 69, page 487,

Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum'') and guelder rose (''Viburnum opulus'') are frequent but alder buckthorn (''Frangula alnus ) a common constituent of East Anglian carr is very rare.

* 2003 , European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products , page 426,

Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.

* 2005 , Bernard Stocks, The Teenage Pensioner , page 112,

On this first day I concentrated on bushes - gooseberry and blackcurrants for the bottom end borders, rhododendrons for the front inside the wall and a couple of hydrangeas in the spaces left in the monoblocking to the left of the front door.

The berry borne by this shrub.

* 2003 , Maria Villegas, Kay Halsey, Sarah Randell, A Little Taste of France , page 120,

Their wines are intense and elegant, tasting of blackcurrants and made to be aged.

* 2011 , Katherine Swift, The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden , page 222,

Blackcurrant' jam is easy, but this year I have left the ' blackcurrants so long that they are sweet and ripe enough to eat raw: delicious rolled in a crunch of granulated sugar.

* 2012 , Tong Kwee Lim, Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants , Volume 4: Fruits, page 28,

Blackcurrants can be eaten fresh, on its own, or with ice cream or in mixed fruit salad.

blackberry

English

(wikipedia blackberry) (Rubus fruticosus)

Noun

(blackberries)

A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

(UK, in some regions) The blackcurrant.

Synonyms

* (shrub and fruit) bramble

Derived terms

* blackberrying

Verb

To gather or forage for .

* 1925 , Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway :

She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun

* 1977 , Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances , Mariner Books (2006), ISBN 9780618694068, page 111:

My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.

* 2001 , Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ISBN 9780156007337, page 72:

My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.

* 2004 , Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland , Gothic Image (2004), ISBN 9780906362648, page 48:

Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire ): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.

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