One summer day a few years ago our younger son pointed out various exotic trees as we walked around our neighborhood. One with clumps of luscious blue-black berries caught my eye. Black Elderberry. I asked if the berries were edible, and he said they were. And the black elderberry ( Sambucus racermosa ssp pubens var melanocarpa ) is native to our Vancouver Island. As someone wanting to grow only native trees in my yard, I have the ethical go-ahead. (To read about why we should grow native trees if we grow trees, see this article about botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger.) And... did the berries not have some medicinal benefits? I wondered aloud. He told me that indeed elderberries were noteworthy for staving off and remedying colds coughs, sore throats and flu. Customers' Most-Loved Gifts Click to learn more... A New Study from the University of Sydney, Australia, published in 2019 in the Journal of Functional Foods... shows that this amazing berry contains phyt
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