Japanese name: エゾニワトコ（蝦夷接骨木、蝦夷庭常、蝦夷庭床） Scientific name:Sambucus racemosa subsp. kamtschatica
[Overview]
A deciduous shrub to tree up to 8 m tall, found at sunny forest edges and roadsides and preferring moist places.
The trunk is thick, and the plant branches freely from the base.
Old bark develops thick cork and splits lengthwise.
Young branches bear stiff hairs.
The leaves are opposite and odd-pinnately compound, consisting of 5–7 leaflets, and have leaf stalks.
The leaflets are elliptic to lanceolate, often asymmetrical at the base, with coarse serrations on the margin.
The upper surface of the leaf has short hairs, and the underside has stiff hairs.
Paniculate cymes at the tips of the current year's branches bear many small flowers.
The inflorescence has fine hairs and papillate projections.
The flowers are 5–7 mm across, and the corolla is white and deeply 5-lobed.
The fruit is a spherical to ovoid drupe that ripens dark red and contains 3 seeds.
Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu: as far as the Kanto region), north-central Korea, northeastern China, Amur, Ussuri, Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin, central Kuril Islands southward, southern Kuril Islands
Growth form
Branching
Height
8000 mm
Leaf shape
Odd-pinnate compound leaf
Leaf arrangement
Opposite
Leaf margin
Serrate
Inflorescence
Cyme
Flower color
White
Flower diameter
5–7
Fruit color
Red
Leaf color
Green
Uses
Medicinal
Translated from our Japanese encyclopedia. If anything differs, the Japanese page is correct.
