Blackcurrant Blackcurrant The blackcurrant or black currant ("Ribes nigrum") is a woody shrub in the family Grossulariaceae grown for its berries. It is native to temperate parts of central and northern Europe and northern Asia where it prefers damp fertile soils and is widely cultivated both commercially and domestically. It is winterhardy, but cold weather at flowering time during the spring reduces the size of the crop. Bunches of small, glossy black fruit develop along the stems in the summer and can be harvested by hand or by machine. The raw fruit is particularly rich in vitamin C and polyphenol phytochemicals.
Rheum ribes 3-0-rutinoside were isolated from the shoots of Syrian rhubarb. "Rheum ribes" is main food plant of a hairstreak butterfly (Rhubarb Hairstreak "Callophrys mystaphia"; Turkish name: "ışgınzümrütü" [lit. 'Rhubarb Emerald']) in Iğdır, Van, Hakkâri, Kars, and Siirt provinces in eastern Turkey. "Rheum ribes" leaves is food plant of Xylena exsoleta moth in Van Province, Turkey. Rheum ribes Rheum ribes, the Syrian rhubarb or currant-fruited rhubarb, rhubarb-currant, warted-leaved rhubarb, warty-leaved rhubarb, rhubarb of Babilonia is an edible wild rhubarb species in the genus "Rheum". It grows between 1000 and 4000 m on dunite rocks, among stones and slopes, and is distributed in