Question: Sorry--I thought my location on the last post pinpointed it. I am in Windham, NH--off a dirt road--in the wetlands--these …
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Sorry--I thought my location on the last post pinpointed it. I am in Windham, NH--off a dirt road--in the wetlands--these berries were seen in a marshy, boggy area near the spotted touch me nots and joe pye weed. They're about 5-6" tall--i took a close up of the leaves as requested. I'm wondering if these are elderberries, and edible or something else and toxic? Thank you again.
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tracyd123, I apologize for any confusion, but I don't know that photographs are associated with each other, so I can't assume that the location information for one photograph applies to another. Your plant is Sambucus nigra (black elderberry). It is not poisonous, rather, it has a long history of use as food and medicine.
