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Image Credit: Anna Povey – with permission
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Image Credit: Anna Povey – with permission
Scientific Name: Sambucus gaudichaudiana
Common Name: white elderberry
Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots
Family: Adoxaceae
Form Description: Woody plant with annual branches arising from perennial rootstock.
Height (m): 1 – 2
Flowers: White, cup-shaped with a short tube and 4 spreading lobes about 10mm across.
Fruit: Almost translucent drupe, 3mm long with 3-4 stones. Clusters of drupes turn from green to white or yellow when ripe.
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Plant Communities
Habitat Notes
Local in gullies and on alluvial flats in the north of the state and on King Island.
Site Tolerance
Moist, Shady
Soil Tolerance
Fertile, Loam, Well-drained
Propagation Calendar
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Flowering Month
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Sowing Month
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Cutting Month
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Treatment Method
Standard Scatter seed thinly on to damp potting mix. Hold seed in place by covering with more potting mix to approximately the depth of the seed size.
Seed Treatment Notes
Remove flesh from the fruit before sowing. Sow fresh seed which will germinate in autumn. Fresh seed germinates quickly and does not require treatment. Stored seed will require 2 months cold stratification after sowing.
Cutting & Division Information
Can be propagated from cuttings taken in later summer/autumn.