Common name:
Native Elderberry, White Elder

Family name:
Caprifolaceae

Botanical name:
Sambucus gaudichaudiana

Flowering/fruiting season:
Summer (Gott, 1995)

Yellow Elderberry
Location:
'In damp shaded gullies with tree ferns, in wet sclerophyll forest in Cotter Valley.' (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:340)

Use:
Food
White berries were eaten raw (Flood, 1980:96)
Notes:
Fruits are 'juicy, a little sour with soft seeds and of pleasant flavour.' (Cribb & Cribb, 1987:56)

Language names:

Horticulture :
Similar species:
S. australasica - Yellow Elderberry (photo opposite) occurs in rainforest margins (Gott, 1995)