This splendid dark45leaved sambucus nigra porphyrophylla 39thundercloud39 is a popular elder and has an rhs award of garden merit with unusual fragrant red45pink summer flowers which are replaced by shiny black elderberries which the birds love in autumn and finely cut black foliage sambucus 39thundercloud39 provides plenty of late summer interest and is ideal as a specimen plant or as a vibrant feature in your borders or cottage garden dense and compact with an upri