Sambucus australasica
Yellow Elderberry
Yellow Elderberry
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Common name: Yellow Elderberry
Also, Native elderberry or native elder
Conservation status: ...
Etymology:
Flowers:
Are sweetly scented and arranged in groups 100–200 mm in diameter
They have 3 white petals about 3 mm long
Flowering occurs from October to March
Fruit:
The yellow fruit is an oval to spherical yellow drupe about 5 mm in diameter
Leaves:
The leaves are pinnate, 60–250 mm long
The petiole is 20–100 mm long,
There are 3 or 5 leaflets, each narrow elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base
Leaflets are 20–100 mm long and 4–30 mm wide with coarsely-toothed edges on a petiolule 2–5 mm long
Stem & branches:
Roots:
Habit:
It is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of 4 m and has glabrous stems, leaves and flowers
Habitat:
It usually grows in and on the edges of rainforest
Distribution:
It is endemic to eastern Australia
Widespread in coastal districts of Queensland and NSW and inland to Rylstone and Tamworth
It is rare in Victoria where it only occurs in the far north east of the state
Additional notes:
Taxonomy
Yellow elderberry was first formally described in 1838 by John Lindley who gave it the name Tripetelus australasicus and published the description in Thomas Mitchell's book, Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia
In 1891, Karl Fritsch changed the name to Sambucus australasica in Adolf Engler and Karl Anton Prantl's book Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien
Sources of information:
(2023)