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Elderberries
Every rated Sambucus record is fire-resistant — 5 of 7 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 7 records carrying 29 evidence rows from 20 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Elderberry Sambucus Fire-resistant Limited evidence 5 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
4 species
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Elderberry Fire-resistant Sambucus canadensis -
mexican elder/blue elderberry Fire-resistant Sambucus nigra -
Northern elderberry Fire-resistant Sambucus pubens - Red elderberry Fire-resistant Sambucus racemosa
Awaiting evidence
2 species
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Blue Elderberry Awaiting evidence Sambucus cerulea - Sambucus williamsii Awaiting evidence Sambucus williamsii
About elderberries
Corpus context. Sambucus is the directory's #104 largest of 550 genus groups: 7 records carrying 29 evidence rows from 20 cited sources, recorded as shrub, tree , hardy across USDA zones 3–9. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Sambucus: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.