Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Abutilon simply unreal and very easy

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

morphs to green leaves with a violet edge

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

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

Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Abutilon simply unreal and very easySambucus '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,