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Hello all. I have some tall fruit bushes in front of my house which have finally swollen with fruit but I have no idea what they are. The bush is about 2m, the leaves are like gooseberries/currants, no thorns. The fruits are slightly elongated, have dark purple/black skin with whitish coating, slightly hairy, and dead flower tails like currants. They don't taste of much, slightly dry but not sour. I've looked at pictures of all blue berries I can think of and it's none of them. Thanks in advance for the help.

they look like blackcurrants to me but they usually have taste ...

Welcome to the forum! They look like blackcurrants to me too.

Whereabouts are you as mine were harvested in June/early July!

I think they may be a decorative currant rather than an edible one...

I agree with Ina, they are flowering currants - the decorative ones with masses of pink to red flowers in spring.
The whitish sheen gives them away, they are always dusty looking, blackcurrants fruits are glossy and shiney.

Oh I didn't even know that those ones got berries on them!

Thanks for the replys, that's a shame I thought they were something useful. I'm in grampian highlands, they had berries on when I moved in the beginning of July and have only now ripened. I thought they would be edible as there are various fruits dotted around the garden in no particular order.

Shame - but now you know to plant some edible ones for next year

Where in Grampian Highlands are you?

Shirlz wrote:Shame - but now you know to plant some edible ones for next year

Where in Grampian Highlands are you?

My question, too - we are not far from you then!

We have a lot of these flowering currants here; the insects love them, so they do serve a purpose.

I'm going to plant blackcurrants this year. Berry fruits are a useful feature in a garden. It's nice to wander outside from time to time and browse around like an animal...

there is a type of blackcurrant that looks very like a gooseberry (or is it the other way around?)

it is called a 'worcesterberry'

and i think that that is what you have here

they are for jam making apparently

Even if they don't have much flavor, they would still be edible. You could use them to bulk out other fruits.

gdb wrote:there is a type of blackcurrant that looks very like a gooseberry (or is it the other way around?)
it is called a 'worcesterberry'
and i think that that is what you have here

Sorry, I think I disagree with you and still go for Flowering Currant.
Worcesterberry has paler, almost grey stems.

Kat-bob will find out who's right next spring and I'm betting they have long skeins of pink/red flowers.