"Ok, google water hemlock and just look at the images and do the same for the eldererries. I did find an interesting fact about the hemlock, let me paste it. "The toxic substance in water hemlock is cicutoxin, a highly poisonous unsaturated…"
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Dorothea Altman left a comment for christne"They are blooming - large, beautiful blooms that look like your pictures. I am thrilled! But I have heard that the bushes are easily confused with the poisonous water hemlock and wonder if there is a sure-fire method of distinguishing one from the…"
"you are in MN, are the bushes in bloom now or producing little berries yet? I know that typically, fruit down here in TN comes into season a little earlier than up north......I am originally from NY..."
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"That I don't know, I do know that my elderberries,now, have the berries on them, still little green berries......I can take a pic of them now and post it and you can compare it."
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"I am new to this site. I just discovered what I am 99% sure is an elderberry bush growing wild by our wetland. I am trying to identify it for sure, but how can I differentiate it from a water hemlock?"
"Ok, I bought my plants from ebay last year. They were literally just sticks and had my doubts, but they were cheap. This year.....well, i posted some pics of them and they are doing great."
"I had ordered my elderberries, only two plants, different varieties, from ebay. Last year was an aweful drought in TN and I struggled to keep everything alive. Since my elderberry plants were just big sticks last year, I used tree gators to keep…"
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- At 12:17pm on July 8, 2009, Dorothea Altman said…
- They are blooming - large, beautiful blooms that look like your pictures. I am thrilled! But I have heard that the bushes are easily confused with the poisonous water hemlock and wonder if there is a sure-fire method of distinguishing one from the other.
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