High-yielding American elderberry (Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis) well-adapted to midwestern U.S. Origin: University of Missouri, by A.L. Thomas, P.L. Byers, and S.E. Sargent. Collected from the wild in 2014 in Pocahontas, AR, by R. Starnes, Diamond City, AR; introd. 2019. Tree: vigorous; very large, 1.3-1.8 m; growth habit strongly upright; bloom time average; production very high, consistent. Fruit: size medium, 70 mg; dark purple; high quality, TSS 11.12 °Brix, pH 4.89, titratable acidity 0.395 g/100 ml citric acid equivalents; ripens late, ~10 d after Bob Gordon. Cyme: very large; ripens uniformly.
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