Are these elderberries?

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I threw in a mixed native hedging pack down one boundary when we moved in a few years ago, as a wildlife friendly place holder as much as anything.

I think these are elderberries but I'm not familiar enough to be sure.

Anyone?

DH is off work and he's wandering in and out talking about elderberry wine.

Would be better with a photo of leaves as well as fruit and the obligatory banana for scale, but they look very like it to me.

Yes

We have no bananas (🎶 ) but I'll get a photo in situ.

I doubt there's a lb there anyway, so I hope he's not serious about wine.

I'm putting in runner beans next year to give him a crop to occupy him.

If you do a Google photo search of the leaves (may accept berries) it will tell you.

They don't look like elderberries to me.

Elderberries are usually in fuller clusters I thought? It’s been a looooong time since my mum took me picking though lol

Years ago, when we were young and poor, we used to make our own wine.
Elderberries make a great wine - a full bodied red!😋

Doesn't look like the right leaf to me

Those leaves don't look like elder leaves.

No, they're not elderberries - don't make wine with them!

Not sure what they are but elderberries are more clustered

Okay thanks everyone.

Google photo search says common dogwood, which is ringing a slightly lounger bell with my memory of the hedging pack, I think.

Louder^ bell.

Elderberry's look like this.

No, I don't think so.
Google Lens reverse search suggests they are Cornus Sanguinea (dogwood) but double check.

I wouldn't be making wine from them!

We have an elder tree in our hedge and usually the birds strip the berries before we can get to them.

Definitely not elderberries! The leaves in your second photo are completely different to elderberry leaves. Shame, as the wine idea sounds nice!

It's a very common shrub but not elders.
I make bakewell tarts with elderberry jam rather than raspberry jam and its fab.

I agree - now you've shown us the leaves, they're definitely not elderberries 😓

Elder:

Elderberries make a great wine - a full bodied red!😋

Really? My front hedge is all edible apart from some dog rose. I might throw some elderberry in to fill the patchy bits. Poor man is desperate for something to conjure with. I'll give him the job of piercing the sloes for gin, but I can't see too much else this year.

No clue why pic not there

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ripe-bunches-of-elderberries-on-the-branches-of-a-bush-the-background-is-blurred-gm1413883460-462806028

But link is here - as PP say berries more in clusters - FIL gets them off with comb for wine and jelly making.

Ah now jam I can get on board with.

Look like Whinberries to me. Great in a pie!

Give them a sniff! If they smell like your Dad, they’re elderberries.