Key to Sambucus

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(For a list of species in Sambucus, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Fruit ± black, densely white-glaucous (appearing ± blue); inflorescence ± flat-topped, central axis generally not dominant; petals ± 

spreading 

Oriented more or less perpendicularly to the axis of attachment; often, more or less horizontal.

..... S. mexicana

1' Fruit red or purple-black, not glaucous; inflorescence ± dome-shaped, central axis generally dominant; petals often 

reflexed 

Abruptly bent or curved downward or backward.

..... S. racemosa

2. Fruit purple-black; inflorescence generally 4–7 cm diam ..... var. melanocarpa

2' Fruit red; inflorescence generally 3–12 cm diam ..... var. racemosa

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