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Back before California was settled by Europeans and others, the Miwok and Nisenan subsisted on a hunter-gatherer diet of acorns, venison, salmon, pine nuts, elderberries, and other berries and plants.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2025

A: You are quite right that elderberries are yummy and also that they must be ripe.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024

An ecosystem of butterfly bushes and elderberries has taken root inside the stone walls and must be removed.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2023

Many parts of the UK have seen an abundance of seeds and nuts such as acorns, beech masts, rowan berries and elderberries including the east of England, North and Northern Ireland.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2022

I found elderberries ripening around a rusted air-handling machine.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston