ELDERBERRY​

Sambucus nigra

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CLASSIFICATION—
Flowering Shrub

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Shrub of damp ground
Opposite compound leaves
Flat heads of pale flowers
Dark berries in hanging clusters
Hollow stems with pale pith

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SEASON—

Early summer flowering
Fruit darkening late season

Berries gathered late summer into autumn

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ARCHIVE—

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Martin Blochwich — Anatomia Sambuci, 1670

“Take the Elder Berries cleaned of their stalks, beat them in a stone mortar, or earthen vessel with a wood pestle till all the Kernels be well bruised; with this succulent matter, fill the 8, 10, or 12 part of a little barrel, as you will have it more or less efficacy, fill up the rest with must, or new Wine, that they may work together.

Some boyle equal parts of the succulent matter and must together, till the consumption of a third part whole, on a slow fire; then straining it through a thin linnen cloth, they put it (as is laid) in a greater quantity, into a Barrel, put must thereon, and so suffer them to work.”

 

CORRESPONDENCES—

Saturn

Earth

Boundary

 

NAMES—

Elder

Elderberry

Sambucus

Black Elder

Bour Tree

Eller

 

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