Plant Information

Common Name: BERRY - ELDERBERRY, GOLDEN
Scientific Name: Sambucus nigra 'Aurea'

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R100.00

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Description

• Perennial
• Deciduous bushy shrub, serrated bright, yellow-green leaves - become lime-green in summer.
• Fragrant star-shaped cream-white flowers, black fruits.
• Well-drained soil.
• Full sun/partial shade.
• Prune.
• Do not prune too hard if flowers and fruit are required.

Culinary Uses

• Flowers - coated with thin batter, deep fried.
• Berries - jams, jelly, salad, pies, pudding.
• Elderberry wine from flowers.

Parts Used

• Leaves, bark, open flower heads and ripe berries.

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

• 'Natures Medicine Chest'.
• Immune stimulant: coughs, colds, flu, chronic catarrh, ear infections, allergies.
• Promotes perspiration that helps reduce fever.
• Flowers tone mucous linings of the nose and throat.
• Infusion of flowers taken before the hay fever season, reduce allergy symptoms.
• Berries rich in vitamin C.
• Bark: Liver stimulant, stubborn constipation and arthritic conditions.
• Strongly purgative - do not use bark in during pregnancy.

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