Sambucus nigra common name is Elderalso called European Elderberry. It grows wild almost
everywhere in Europe. Usually it is no more
than a bush, but it can form a small tree.
It is a deciduous bush or little tree generally growing 4 -
6 m (13-20 ft) in height at some point it turn into 10 m in tallness. The bark,
light dim when youthful, changes to a coarse dim external bark with the long
way wrinkling. The leaves are orchestrated in inverse combines, 10–30 cm long,
pinnate with five to seven handouts, the pamphlets 5–12 cm long and 3–5 cm
wide, with a serrated margin.
Sambucus nigra – Elder
The twigs are stout but brittle, since they hold a thick
white pith. They are often angular and bear vertical corky pores on their bark.
The buds are oppositely set, with a clear leaf scar below them, and several
loose brownish-red or purple scales. The leaves are compound-pinnate, comprised
of five to seven oval leaflets with toothed margins, somewhat resembling Ash.
The fragrant, bi-sexual creamy-white June blossoms stand
above the foliage in flat-topped cymes of 5-6 inches diameter. These blossoms
are sometimes brewed to make a refreshing or medicinal tea. The flowers are
succeeded by small green globular berries, eventually juicy and purple-black,
much used for the making of elder-berry wine.
On young stems the bark is pale yellowish-brown, with
prominent vertically disposed lenticels, which are at first pale but become
darker. Later the bark rapidly becomes furrowed and corky, thick and
greyish-brown in color. The wood when and horny in texture.
Elder is often treated as a weed, but sometimes as a favored covert
plant. In sheltered places it may carry some green leaf throughout most of the
year, but a hard frost will blacken and cripple the foliage.
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