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Variety of Black elderberry · Sambucus nigra

Productive European elderberry with anthocyanin-rich berries.

🇩🇰 Denmark

Taste & characteristics

Taste

aromatic

Profile

Pollination: self-fertile

Flowering & harvest

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Flowering
Fruit harvest

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Description

Fruit

Large clusters of dark, flavourful berries with a notably high anthocyanin content; a heavy-cropping variety for juice, jelly and processing.

Growth

Moderately vigorous, stiffly upright growth. Very early ripening from mid August into September.

Yield

Bears large crops; grown commercially in Sweden and Germany.

Care

Site: Also suited to home gardens, not just plantations. Care: Very early ripening from mid August. The cultivar tends to shatter somewhat, so harvest promptly. Up to 32 kg per plant is possible.

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