NATIVE ELDERBERRY Hardwood Cuttings in bundles of five to start your own elderberry plants. They root very easily in soil or water 5@20.00 larger orders available! They will keep in a refrigerator or root cellar till spring or start indoors in a dark cool basement or root cellar will be rooted by spring and ready to plant. This shrub is 2 – 4 m (6.5 – 13 ft) tall, usually on the smaller end than larger. Leaves are opposite and pinnately compound. Flowers are borne in 12.7 – 229 cm (5 – 9 in) wide clusters (inflorescences) at tips of branches. Clusters may contain several hundred flowers. White 4- to 5-petaled flowers are small, only about 3 mm (0.1 in) wide. Fruits are purple-black berries about 6 mm (0.25 in) in diameter.American Elderberry Sambucus Canadensis is usually found in moist, edge habitat, in full or light shade. It is often on lake and pond shores, low areas along roadways, in low forest and old fields. It is native across the U.S. except in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawai’i. It is also known from Manitoba east through New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.This species flowers in June to July depending on the part of the country in which it is found. Bees, wasps, and beetles strongly attracted to the flowers. Fruits ripen in August to September and are eaten by many species of birds and mammals.The flowers of this species are used to make wine & medicinal tea and the fruits are used to make syrup, pies and various jams and preserves. As some people react negatively to the raw fruit, they should not be eaten unless cooked Syracuse, NY .