Looking up into a flowering white elderberry, Sambucus nigra, against a cloudless blue sky


The deciduous elderberry is a small tree or shrub, flowering in spring in NZ. Although in parts of the country it is a weed, the tree has multiple uses for flowers and berries and bark, including the well-known elderflower cordial and elderberry wine.


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Location: Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Photo credit: © Carol Thomas / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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