Elderberry

Alias: ? Elderberry, Luying, Capsule Sambucus, Pai Feng Vine, Eight-pronged Hemp, Big Stinkweed, Rice Heart Grass, Small Elderberry

Tall perennial herb or subshrub. Up to 3 m tall, pith white. Branches terete, angular, silvery white. Stipules of pinnately compound leaves leafy or sometimes reduced to blue glands; leaflets 2-3 pairs, alternate or opposite, narrowly ovate, 6-13 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, sparsely villous above when young, first pubescent acuminate, base obtusely rounded, unequal on both sides, margins serrulate, margins often with 1 or several glandular teeth near the base or below the middle; terminal leaflet ovate, base cuneate, sometimes connected with the first pair of leaflets, leaflets Stipules absent, basal pair of leaflets sometimes shortly stipulate.