Elderberry --- Sambucus racemosa
For a few days in late spring the evening air is laden with the sweet smell.
Soon the flowers fade and the shrub becomes nondescript until the berries turn bright red in fall.
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Elderberry, sweet flesh and stone center—a metaphor for human mortality in North Coast cosmology |
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The figures on left are parts of individual flowers. The petals and stamens come off together leaving the stigmas and hypogynous ovary. When dissected the pendent ovules seen as lower right and right |
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