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Originally Posted by Mark Hobley
I spoke to an horticulturalist at college and he said that this might be
some sort of reversion, and I need to find out the ancestor of the gooseberry
bush to find out what the berries were. He suspected that they were currants.
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The ancestor of the gooseberry was one of a number of wild gooseberry species, usually Ribes uva-crispa.
The theory that you have a sucker from a rootstock sounds more likely.
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