Berry Confusing

The first one is definitely the elderberry we have here, but the other looks similar.
There are a few different types of elder though!

I would agree with Marie...the first looks like a typical British Elderberry.....they grow just about anywhere, riverbanks, railway embankments, countryside hedgerows.....rough ground....the other one does also look like some kind of elderberry.....hhmm.....interesting!
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Re-edited from Wikepedia, HW.....might help....note, there are 30 species, so maybe the one you are trying to identify is also a member of the same species...

"Sambucus (elder or elderberry) is a genus of between 5 and 30 species of shrubs or small trees in the moschatel family, Adoxaceae.
The genus is native in temperate-to-subtropical regions of both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. It is more widespread in the Northern Hemisphere.
The leaves are pinnate with 5–9 leaflets. Each leaf is 2.0–12 in long, and the leaflets have serrated margins. They bear large clusters of small white or cream-coloured flowers in late spring; these are followed by clusters of small black, blue-black, or red berries (rarely yellow or white)."

Looking at the leaves, I would recognize both of them as elder's. They make FANTASTIC wine HW. :~)))

Lovely in pies & crumbles too! (or cobbler?)

The flower is excelent to make a drink for arthitis reduces imflamation in the body. Yes definately elder berries, I have 20 lining my fence from the grave yard next door.

The flowers are made into Elderflower champagne, HW, the berries into elderberry wine or cordial.....both very, very good. Hic.

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Corr' Morgana, I would never be sober with that kind of harvest on my doorstep! :~)))

Any thing fizzy is no good for arthritis or inflamation you can make a cordial out of the flower or champagne like Bscott suggests.

Elderflower cordial is lovely, but the fizzy is gorgeous!! hic!

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LOL!

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Good grief get a grip guys and gals... we can't appear paralytic all over GoY - lol!

You can have them Ian as they hardly ever cut it back, I use to have to do it, if I did nt I would nt have a garden, now I have to pay some one to cut them back, I get all the leaves from I very large sycamore, the elder which for the first time last year they cut back and now its growing all back, and rowen and numourous other of their trees, all their leaves blowing out my front and back and they all blow in the house.

Wow...to think I have been reading about elderberries for years, and looking at elderberries for years....and NEVER knew they were the same, cause no one told me names of the plant I saw before now!

Now to plan out next years elderberry raids! lol

GoY is a growing experience, n'est-ce pas?!

Vraiment!

mais oui!

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I like your pussy cat HW :~))

Thanks Ian... :))

Like both the cats! LOL!
Digger, you're invisible now! Bampot!

He is cross with us right now MP over the 'moggy issue'!

Mad ....the black cat is my Lil'Man who pssed away on Mothers Day last May...he was with me for 16 1/2 yrs.....I still miss him, in fact sometimes I feel him jump on the bed still! He was my Reiki Cat...if someone was ill or hurt...his paws would warm up and he would place them on the person on just the right spot!

Oh, a healing cat! How lovely! So he was the REAL Healerwitch, huh?
MG, still a bampot! Hiding is just silly!