A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
The blackcurrant.
To gather or forage for blackberries.
Other plants of genus Erica of similar habit
The flowering plant Erica arborea, native to east Africa and the Mediterranean.
Erica scoparia (green heath, besom heath, broom heath)
Dracophyllum arboreum (Chatham tree heath)
especially Trochocarpa laurina of Australia and New Zealand.
Ecological domains characterized by large numbers of such species of ericaceous plants.