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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

I notice that the dried elderberries I buy for tea are Sambucus nigra 
imported from Europe. Elderberry tea seems useful for colds and 
respiratory infections.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


On 01/05/2011 10:36 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
> I'm pretty sure they will be hardy to z4a, they are selections from
> sambucus canadensis..
>
> Sorry for the confusion.  In the presentation the guys was saying that
> 90% of the juice, syrup, tinctures&  such sold in the US are all being
> imported from europe. Not sure what is planted over there.  Perhaps
> that means that products are primarily sambucus nigra but he didn't go
> into that.
>
> ~mIEKAL