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elderberry
📍 3912 Sullivan Rd, Knoxville, TN 37921, USA
🗓 Season: August · September
🔍 When is it ripe?
Dark blue-black clusters when ripe. Cook thoroughly before eating — raw berries are mildly toxic. Ripe when all berries are dark and clusters hang downward.
bushes of elderberry growing in the right along the greenway, competing with amur honeysuckle and other invasive bushes, they put out huge amounts of flowers in 2021, which make good fritters; the berries can be cooked and used to make wine, jams and jellies, a healthful syrup, etc. Be warned: elderberry is extremely poisonous, the roots, stems, leaves, and uncooked berries are not to be eaten.
The mature stems (from previous years) can be cut and the pith in the center removed to make a hollow stick for various purposes - e.g. commonly used to make spiles for tapping trees to make syrup. (More than just maple trees can be tapped to make syrup.)
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