Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Abutilon when the 2' tall pine

when the 2' tall pine cone-like spikes sprout from the base of the plant

Each 18" long x 4" wide tricolor leaf has a green center with a creamy white edge and light green highlights

The plants are topped from mid-October through mid-November with lovely bright yellow tassels

simply unreal and very easy to grow in average garden soil in light shade

Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Abutilon when the 2' tall pineSambucus 'Chocolate Marzipan' is the Kraken of the elderberry world, and a garden designer's dream. We picked up this new, and still virtually unknown Edmund Brown hybrid during our 2020 UK travels, in our search for any dark foliaged sambucus that would survive our heat and humidity. This beast has done far more than survive, forming a massive 12' tall x 12' wide specimen with widely arching woody stems, clothed with large black foliage, and topped,