ELDER FLOWERS,

BERRIES

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Elder (Sambucus canadensis), is a large bush or

small tree. I forgot the Indian name, could

someone please tell me? There is a name for the

tree, for the flowers for tea, for the flowers just to

cook, and 3 names for the berries. not-ripe, ready

(raw) and dried. This tree flowers in July, big

bunches of sweetish white flowers. You can easily

pick them by the stems of bunches (they make a

better tea if taken when fresh, before the berries

set).

On the branches, there are usually more leaves -- 6, 8 or 12 -- than the 4 shown

in the picture there. I thought surely the names in Indian would come back to me

while I was working on this as they did with some of the others, I left it to last

except for wintergreen and bearberry I'm still looking for good pix of. But it

didn't come back to me.

Native Foods -- Elder

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