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Leaves without stipule-like leaflets at the base; the lowest pair distant from the branch. Leaflets mostly 3–5 Flowers mostly 5-merous. Berry black. Leaflets ovate to elliptic, mostly up to 8 cm long, toothed, coriacous. Corolla white. Deciduous shrub up to 5 m high. Blue Mts Occasionally naturalized in moist places. Introd. from Europe. Fl. spring–summer. Elder Sambucus nigra