By Samgramp
United States 
i have a flowering blackcurrant and all i want to know can i eat the berries? yes or no will do nothing else
30 Jun, 2015
Answers
Me neither
30 Jun, 2015
No!
30 Jun, 2015
Sorry to disagree, but yes you can. Probably not worth it but you could always taste one and see what you think.
30 Jun, 2015
what do you mean by a flowering blackcurrant? is it an ornamental version of a fruiting variety of black currant?
or do you mean flowering currant Ribes sanguineum?
1 Jul, 2015
They only wanted a yes or no answer, so we did!
1 Jul, 2015
OK, I'll change my answer from 'I wouldn't' to No.
1 Jul, 2015
Bit of clarification please - I notice that, in the States, people seem to call Ribes sanguinam flowering blackcurrant, whereas its actually a flowering currant - actual blackcurrant is Rubus nigrum. If you have Ribes sanguinam, it does produce berries which are edible, but they're insipid and fairly tasteless.
1 Jul, 2015
Once again our experts have outdone themselves. I admire all of our experts as they answer some ambiguous questions without any fuss and always come up trumps. Sometimes they might have a slight disagreement but all have dignity and decorum and resolve differences, immediately. Hats off to you all!!!!!!
1 Jul, 2015
Actually Joan, I'm still laughing - if you look at the question, despite its somewhat inexact information, there is a request there for 'yes or no, nothing else', which isn't, of course, what the asker has got. But then, if you're not specifically exact in the question, then a specifically exact answer such as yes or no is impossible... Still, I'm grateful for any amusement wherever I find it...
1 Jul, 2015
Well the answer to "can I eat the berries? yes or no" is clearly "yes". You can eat whatever you want - eat pigeon poo if that's what takes your fancy!
So, yes, you can eat the berries - but the qualifier is that they may not be up to much in the taste department.
1 Jul, 2015
I've tried and they weren't!
1 Jul, 2015
And you may end up with a serious tummy upset! So NO!
1 Jul, 2015
Well I didn't. One was enough as they were pretty tasteless and they really are not harmful. I just had a look on Google to see what others say - they all agree edible but tasteless.
Same applies to fuchsia and Mahonia berries which I also checked out first and tasted.
1 Jul, 2015
You can make jam from fuschia berries.
1 Jul, 2015
That's why I tasted one to see if it was worth it and I didn't think it was! (Not that I have enough berries...)
1 Jul, 2015
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I wouldn't.
30 Jun, 2015