B143 



BLUEBERRY ELDER 



Sambu'cus caeru'lea, syn. S. glau'ca 



Flowers smnll, white, numerous, in 

 much-branched, flat-topped .end clus- 

 ters (compound cymes) 2 to 6 (or 9) 



United petals (corolla) saucer-shaped, 

 deeply 5-lohed; lobes alternating with 

 the 5 stamens 



Leaves opposite, stalked, divided 

 (odd-pinnately compound) into 5 to 9 

 leaflets 



Leaflets pale green, hairless or nearly 

 so, egg-shaped to oblong-lance-shapea, 

 sharp- or taper-pointed, coarsely 

 toothed, usually rounded and lopsided 

 at base, about 2 to 6 in. long; lower 

 leaflets often again divided 



Fruit (drupe) berrylike, bluish black 

 covered with whitish bloom, about }{ 

 in. in diameter, crowned by 5 minute, 

 persistent teeth of outer united flower 

 parts (calyx), 3- to 6-celled, each cell 

 l-"seeded 



Stems smooth, hairless, pithy, usu- 

 ally G to 12 ft. high and bushy (some- 

 times treelike and much taller); bark 

 of large stems dark and finely furrowed 



