Elder
സാംബുകസ് നൈഗ്ര
Sambucus nigra L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.6 m
- wide
- 4.3 m
Viburnaceae
Also called Black elderberry
Formerly Sambucus alba, Sambucus aurea, Sambucus columnaris, Sambucus dissecta, and 12 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Azores, Europe to W. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 2.4 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, creamRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Chinese
- 西洋接骨木, 接骨木, 接骨木叶
- Simplified Chinese
- 西洋接骨木
- Asturian
- xabú
- Czech
- bez černý
- German
- Schwarzer Holunder
- Finnish
- mustaselja
- French
- sureau noir
- Dutch
- gewone vlier, Gewone vlier
- Occitan
- sambuc, sampechier
- Slovenian
- črni bezeg
- Malayalam
- സാംബുകസ് നൈഗ്ര
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Sambucus nigra (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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