This delightful spring45flowering shrub is smothered with small yellow flowers in april and may which have a delicious sweet fragrance ribes odoratum is also known as the buffalo currant or clove currant due to its scent forming a medium sized shrub the leaves turn to deep shades of red and purple in autumn for an extended season of interest ribes odoratum also produces edible shiny black fruits which are slightly larger than blackcurrants with a sweeter clove45like flavour this ha