Karen, I'm thrilled to see you on KZfaq! I'm your old friend in Arkansas. I sent you the Beauty Berry photos several years ago. Our Elderberries are already ripening in early July. I have eaten handfuls of raw Elderberries with no ill effects, but I didn't really enjoy them, as ours are practically tasteless. In fact, they taste much like the Beauty Berries.

Love your accuracy and depth. Love

Such wonderful and useful content, Karen. Thank you!

Wow! I should not have watched this on an empty stomach...those deserts at the end looked super yummy! Thanks so much for posting this it's on my list of must learn plants. I've been told they grow everywhere here.

Thank you for the info.

You can grind up the flowers and use them as flour. flower flour. Or flour flower.

@10:13 please note those berries aren't quite ripe, and I think you referred to a flower recipe? They turn a deep purple, almost black when ripe for sambucus nigra/canadensis. De-stemming is the chore. Thanks for the tonic recipe, that looks interesting 😀

@6:37

How can one tell the difference between elderflower buds and green berries? I wanted to infuse the flowers into gin, but there are many tiny whitish/pale green buds? or berries? on some of the clusters. I don't want to infuse them if they are green berries...

I know this question may sound OLD FASHION! Why don't you use the American standards of weights and measures, e.g., when you describe the size of the flowerhead, you use the European standards of measurements - 15-30cm in width! It's become a major pet peeve with me and I don't understand why any Americans would set aside their heritage and use the foreign land's measuring systems! Otherwise, thank you for the good information! Do you sell the bark?