elderberry bush

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Noun1.elderberry bush - any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
genus Sambucus, Sambucus - elder; elderberry
American elder, black elderberry, Sambucus canadensis, sweet elder - common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
blue elder, blue elderberry, Sambucus caerulea - shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
danewort, dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus - dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor
black elder, bourtree, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra - a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
American red elder, Sambucus pubens, stinking elder, red-berried elder - common North American shrub or small tree
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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One's delight in an elderberry bush overhanging the confused leafage of a hedgerow bank, as a more gladdening sight than the finest cistus or fuchsia spreading itself on the softest undulating turf, is an entirely unjustifiable preference to a nursery-gardener, or to any of those regulated minds who are free from the weakness of any attachment that does not rest on a demonstrable superiority of qualities.
He had just removed an unwanted elderberry bush from within Byram Courtyard and had been working with traders to have pallets removed and overflowing bins tidied up.
The elderberry bush is one of my favourites because it bears elderflowers in the summer which are perfect for making into a cordial and serving with champagne (a popular drink in the restaurant).
This year, I introduced two jujube trees, an elderberry bush, and space for a few cantaloupe/honeydew vines.--Tim Brown, via Facebook
"This book is a kind of wild walking," Simpson says, "because, as I was writing it, my thinking became a little wild, brambly and overgrown--a kind of elderberry bush. The walking and writing became almost indistinguishable.
Some plants are both toxic and medicinal, depending on which part is used, Policha noted as he stood beside a Sambucus racemosa, or red elderberry bush. While its berries are unpalatable when raw, the flowers can induce sweat, helping bring down a high fever when boiled into a hot tea.
Sambuca, which taste of licorice like Pernod, is actually flavored with flowers of the elderberry bush.
This is more than a metre wide at the base and almost overshadows a nearby elderberry bush.
A barred warbler further down the coast was typically retiring, skulking in an elderberry bush at Sprun for 45 minutes before emerging in unseasonally hot sun to scoff the fruits like there was no tomorrowp DEREK WILLIAMS'S patch on Downholland Moss continues to repay his efforts - recent records include 10 buzzards (September 11), 32 moorhen, 2 raven, peregrine, 4 marsh harrier and 175 pink footed geese on September 10p JUDI HALl e-mailed about buzzards not too far from her Wirral home.
The common, edible, elderberry bushes are Sambucus canadensis and Sambucus nigra, also known as American elderberry and black elderberry.
Around the pool is a variety of trees, shrubs, and flowers: a weeping cherry tree, two free blooming lilacs, black elderberry bushes, three Fine Wine Weigela bushes, two tree form Pinky-winky Hydrangeas, and two figures of children, harkening back to Diane's kindergarten days.
The beekeepersaid shewill plant elderberry bushes because demand for the tonic was so popular.
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