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How to Grow
Water
Medium
Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.
Sunlight
Partial Shade - Partial Sun - Full Sun
~
3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Shrubs, Edible, Native Plant, Poisonous, Shrub
Lifespan
Woody
Flower
Many 1/4 inch fragrant creamy-white flowers appear in 4-10-inch flat-topped to rounded clusters from April to July. Blooms on second-year wood.
Fruit
Clusters of round, edible, purplish-black drupes display from June to August. Each berry is 1/4 inch across, contains 3-5 seeds and is borne in large drooping clusters.
Benefits
Attracts
Birds
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Pollinators
Small Mammals
Songbirds
Taxonomy
Order
Dipsacales
Family
Adoxaceae
Genus
Sambucus
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