Nick Turner / Redcurrant plant with ripe berries (Ribes rubrum) UK, June.

Nick Turner / Redcurrant plant with ripe berries (Ribes rubrum) UK, June.

Nick Turner / Redcurrant plant with ripe berries (Ribes rubrum) UK, June.

Nick Turner / Redcurrant plant with ripe berries (Ribes rubrum) UK, June.

Nick Turner / Redcurrant plant with ripe fruit (Ribes rubrum) UK, June.

MYN / David Hunter / Red flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) flower, with insect feeding, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA, June. meetyourneighbours.net project

Fabrice Cahez / Redcurrants (Ribes rubrum) ripening on stem. Vosges, France, June.

Philippe Clement / Redcurrant branch (Ribes rubrum) in flower, Belgium

Stephen Dalton / Blackcurrant fruit (Ribes nigrum) on bush, UK

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) browsing on Bristly wild gooseberries (Ribes oxyacanthoides) amongst tundra vegetation, Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Fruits of Bristly wild / Canadia gooseberry (Ribes oxyacanthoides) Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Silvia Reiche / Redflower Currant (Ribes sanguineum) flowering, Hoogeloon, Netherlands

Silvia Reiche / Redflower Currant (Ribes sanguineum) flowering, Hoogeloon, Netherlands

Bjorn Forsberg / Redcurrant berries {Ribes rubrum} Sweden

Tim Fitzharris / Redflower Currant (Ribes sanguineum) close up of bloom, North America

Niall Benvie / Wild blackcurrant {Ribes nigrum} in flower, April, Angus, Scotland, UK meetyourneighbours.net project

Bjorn Forsberg / Redcurrants on bush {Ribes rubrum} Red cross variety, Sweden

Konstantin Mikhailov / Redcurrant bush (Ribes rubrum) with green unripe berries, Russia

Duncan Usher / Currant (Ribes sp) close up of red berries, medicinal plant, Europe

Duncan Usher / Currant (Ribes sp) close up of red berries, medicinal plant, Europe

Kim Taylor / Blue tit (Parus caeruleus) on Flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) after late snowfall in April, Surrey, UK, digital composite

Kim Taylor / Robin (Erithacus rubecula) on Flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) after a late snowfall in April, UK, digital composite

Silvia Reiche / Redflower Currant (Ribes sanguineum) flowering, Hoogeloon, Netherlands

Duncan Usher / Currant (Ribes sp) flowers which will ripen into fruit, medicinal plant, Europe