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wiggy123

Can i ask a question--maybe a stupid one at that..:-)
any one hear tell of a boltry bush/tree..if so what is the real name for it..please!
thanks

John-Holmes

I'm pretty sure I have heard the ol boy on about it san.
What are you looking to know?

wiggy123

what is the real name for it

John-Holmes

I'll be chatting to him at the weekend so I will let you know then.

wiggy123

anyone any idea what real name is for this tree/plant

bbam

ELDER





NAME : ELDER

GAELIC NAME : TROM


LATIN NAME : Sambucus nigra

COMMON / FOLK NAMES : Black Elder Black-berry European Elder Boor Tree Bountry Ellanwood Ellhorn European Elder German Elder Alhuren Battree Boure Tree Bour Tree Eldrum Ellhorn Frau Holle (German) Hildemoer (German) Hollunder (German) Hylder Lady Ellhorn Old Gal Old Lady Pipe Tree Rob Elder Sureau (French) Sweet Elder Tree of Doom Yakori bengeskro (Romany-Devil's Eye)

MEDICINAL PART : Root Bark Young shoots Leaves Flowers Fruit

PLACE OF ORIGIN : Ireland & Europe.

HABITAT : It is found in moist, shady places and among underbrush, also cultivated.

DESCRIPTION : Black elder may take the form of a shrub or small tree, 10 to 30 feet high. The bark is light brown near the bottom of the stem, gray-white higher up, somewhat torn and stippled with warts. The leaves are opposite, odd-pinnate; the leaflets ovate, acuminate, finely serrate, dark green.

FLOWERING PERIOD : In June and July black elder sports cymes of white to yellow-white flowers, which develop into berries that turn from green through red-brown to shiny black.

PROPERTIES
Bark and Root : Diuretic Emetic Purgative
Leaves and Shoots : Diuretic
Flowers : Diaphoretic
Fruit : Aperient
Caution -: The berries are not to be eaten raw and the fresh juice is not to be used.
(unless you enjoy vomiting and diarrhoea).
Medical Properties of Irish Herbs, Trees & Fungi

Caoimhín

It makes a fine wine, rather like a good Shiraz.

wiggy123

think thats not it...about 50/50 at that..i may ask maybe auld fella 2nite...what is it