Their stalks are hollow and extremely short lived.
Heide
Donna Jones wrote:
> Can elderberries be grafted?
> The wild elderberries here are poisonous, except for the flesh of the
> berries. What would happen if I grafted nonpoisonous elderberries onto the
> local rootstock? I am thinking of using the Northwestern native blue
> elderberry for the scion.
> I know that the Bulluck brothers down in the San Juan islands grafted
> named apples onto the native crabapple stock there, but those crabs were
> themselves edible.
> Thanks for you ideas.
>
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