| Title | Currans |
| Source | Ted Bodner. James H. Miller and Karl V. Miller. 2005. Forest plants of the southeast and their wildlife uses. University of Georgia Press., Athens. |
| Date | 2005 |
| URL | http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=VAAR&photoID=vaar_004_avp.tif |
| Creator | Ted Bodner |
| Type | Photograph |
| Copyright | 2005 |
| Origin | Internet |
| Notes | ; Lawson p.112 describes winter currants as a “very pretty, bushy Tree, about seven or eight Foot high, very spreading, which bears a Winter-Fruit, that is ripe in October. They call’ em Currants, but they are nearer a Hurt. . . . They dry them instead of Currants.”; Lawson also describes Bermudas Currants that grow in the woods on a bush . . . much like a European Currant. Lawson has eaten them but regards them as “a very indifferent Fruit.” He also describes April Currants that grow on the banks of rivers, has red fruit, on a tree.; Bellis Winter currant may be sparkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum Marshall). Redford describes this species as “shrub or small tree to 10 m tall, berry black, dry and mealy, long persistent, fruit in Sept./Oct. I am not sure what plants Lawson described as Bermudas currants and April currants.; |
An alternate spelling of “currants”, these are the edible fruits of various plants, including Levant dwarf grapes and plants of the genus Ribes; the latter were introduced into England as ‘bastard currants’ or ‘black currants’ and ‘red currants’ in 1578; Hakluyt’s text is used as source by the OED for this term.