← elderberry
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Samyl
Sambucus nigra
The record
- Parentage
- Sambucus nigra
- Origin
- Denmark
- Rights
- rights unknown — No patent, certificate, or trademark found in the sources consulted.
- Species
- Sambucus nigra
- Yield
- Productive; a commercial cultivar
- Pollination
- Requires cross-pollination to set fruit; commonly planted with ‘Samdal’
Description
The other half of the Danish pair, and the record that states the pollination requirement most directly: it needs cross-pollination to set fruit.
Read that against the general advice that elderberry is *partially* self-fertile. Partial is a species-level generalisation. At the cultivar level the requirement varies, and ‘Samyl’ is at the demanding end. A grower who buys one plant on the strength of the general statement has bought a shrub.