Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Abutilon small grower from Mary Chastain

small grower from Mary Chastain makes a small 1' wide mound of shiny

morphs to green leaves with a violet edge

we like to shear back the old foliage which often looks a bit tired after the winter

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

Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Abutilon small grower from Mary ChastainSambucus '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,