Red-berried Elder - Sambucus racemosa 1

Red-berried Elder - Sambucus racemosa
Other names: Red Elderberry
Family: Adoxaceae

Flower Colour:

yellow,

green,

Bloom in:

April,

May,

Type of flowering:

number of petals 5,

Sambucus racemosa is often a treelike shrub growing 2–6 m (7–20 ft) tall. The stems are soft with a pithy center.

Each individual leaf is composed of 5 to 7 leaflike leaflets, each of which is up to 16 cm (6+1⁄4 in) long, lance-shaped to narrowly oval, and irregularly serrated along the edges. The leaflets have a strong disagreeable odor when crushed.

The inflorescence is a vaguely cone-shaped panicle of several cymes of flowers blooming from the ends of stem branches. The flower buds are pink when closed, and the open flowers are white, cream, or yellowish. Each flower has small, recurved petals and a star-shaped axis of five white stamens tipped in yellow anthers. The flowers are fragrant and visited by hummingbirds and butterflies.

The fruit is a bright red or sometimes purple drupe containing 3 to 5 seeds. [Wikipedia]