Blueberry vs. Blackcurrant — What's the Difference?

Blueberries are a widely distributed and widespread group of perennial flowering plants with blue or purple berries. They are classified in the section Cyanococcus within the genus Vaccinium.

The blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum), also known as black currant or cassis, is a deciduous shrub in the family Grossulariaceae grown for its edible berries. It is native to temperate parts of central and northern Europe and northern Asia, where it prefers damp fertile soils.

A small sweet blue-black edible berry which grows in clusters on North American shrubs related to the bilberry.

A small round edible black berry that grows in loose hanging clusters.

One of the dwarf shrubs that produces blueberries, some kinds being cultivated for their fruit or as ornamentals.

The widely cultivated shrub that bears blackcurrants.

Any of various plants of the genus Vaccinium, having white to reddish, urn-shaped or tubular flowers and edible blue to blue-black berries, especially the highbush blueberry and the lowbush blueberry.

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

The fruit of any of these plants.

The berry borne by this shrub.

A usually blue-gray spherule that is found in soil and sedimentary rock and is rich in hematite, produced by the weathering of rock or by precipitation from rock by moving groundwater.

(countable) An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.

(countable) The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.

A dark blue colour.

Of a dark blue colour.

To gather or forage for blueberries.

The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans. Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

Any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries

Sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants