Carolina Gardening: Wild berry ID?, 3 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Elderberry blooms will have a nice lovely vanilla like scent. It can get extremely large (the first photo is after I hacked it back to 6 feet last year - it is now about 10 to 12 feet)

Second photo are the berries ripening (they will be blackish when fully ripe). Thousands of little berries that will all go to seed - be ready to hoe or spray to keep them under control.

The scent of the blooms has a very nice aroma and the blooms go on for a few weeks in early summer.

The last photo shows ripened berries from two years ago.