Elderberry - Native Fruits - Small Fruit and Berries

Product Details

Zones: 4 - 8 (-20° F.)
Height: 12-14'
Spacing: 6-8'
Sun/Shade: full sun/part shade
Pollinator: self fertile
Blooms: early summer
Fruit: Juicy, sweet, purplish black berries

Comments: Excellent berry size, largest of all. Lovely fall foliage. Bright white flowers in the spring. Highest of all in Vitamin C. Excellent pollinator for other elderberries. Can bear as early as the second year. Last to ripen. The elderberry has been used for myriad medicinal purposes for millennia. The berries and flowers are used in home-made wines. Dried elderberries and their blossoms are used in tea, which reputedly helps to reduce fever and improve digestion. The fruit is high in vitamin C. The flower-tops possess a mild floral flavor and are often used in pancakes, or dipped in batter & fried. The Joy of Cooking recommends combining the fruit with rhubarb in cooking (it also recommends cooking the flowers with gooseberries). The American goldfinch, brown thrasher, gray catbird, northern mockingbird, and yellow warbler nest in elderberries (Ortho: 32-33). The berries are eaten by the pileated woodpecker, mockingbird, gray catbird, brown thrasher, American robin, bluebird, thrush, cedar waxwing, northern and orchard orioles, tanager, black-headed and evening grosbeaks. Butterflies visit elderberry flowers for the nectar.
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- Tuesday, March 09, 2010
They are good for more than jelly
Reviewed By: Cheryll (Grand Rapids, MI)
The white flowers of the elderberry bush have been used in many things; pressed into tonics, brewed into wines and champagne, lightly battered and fried into fritters, or stirred into muffin or sponge cake mix for a light, sweet flavor. The ripe berries, cleaned and cooked, can be made into many things: extracts, syrups, pies, jams, or used as garnish, dye or flavoring. And if that is not enough to praise this fruit for: Elderberries contain potassium and large amounts of vitamin C, and have been proven in quite a few recent studies to shorten the duration of cold and flu symptoms, as well as strengthen the immune system. Elderberries are also a good source of anthocyanins, powerful antioxidants which are responsible for giving many red and purple fruits their color. Yum-yum and HEALTHY too!!

- Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Such a great plant
Reviewed By: Rose (Martinsburg, WV)
These are a great plant to have around. They grow well in full sun but we most often saw them in the wild in the verge of power line or rail road cuts. They are all over our area in WV and transplant easily. Wonderful flavor for jellies, especially if cut with apple - Delicious. We have 8-10 plants and have all the fruit we'd need.

- Thursday, May 07, 2009
Keeps coming back!
Reviewed By: Amanda (wheeling, WV)
I love elderberries ever since I was a child they grew wild in Oh where I lived. We used to make jelly which was soooo good! I got 2 of these elderberry plants last year for mothers day. After I planted them and they were starting to come up my neighbor mowed them by accident not once but serveral times. I finally told them about it. I thought they were dead for sure but this spring I noticed that they are growing so fast and full. They are already about 3 ft tall. They keep coming back!!!! Thank goodness.

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