European Elderberry
Sambucus nigra · Viburnaceae · 서양딱총나무
How to spot it
Marked by an unpleasant smell from the large, divided compound leaves and large flat flower clusters.
Look
- Leaves
- Dark green pinnate compound leaves up to 25 cm long, made of 3 to 9 toothed, egg-shaped leaflets; they smell unpleasant when rubbed.
- Flowers
- Small yellowish-white to cream flowers gather in summer in flat corymb-like cymes 13 to 20 cm wide, with a musky smell.
- Fruit
- Glossy black berries about 1 cm across appear in late summer to autumn.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native to Europe, North Africa and southwest Asia.
- Ecology
- The flowers attract butterflies and the fruit attracts birds.
Sources
- 국립수목원 국가표준식물목록(KPNI 웹 조회)
- NC State Extension Plant Toolbox
- Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
- H.C. Andersen Centre, University of Southern Denmark(장 허숄트 영역)
- Richard Folkard, 'Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics'(1884) — Project Gutenberg #44638
- T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, 'The Folk-lore of Plants'(1889) — Project Gutenberg #10118