Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Abutilon Each 18" long x 4"

Each 18" long x 4" wide tricolor leaf has a green center with a creamy white edge and light green highlights

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

comes to us from the garden of South Africa's Ian Smith

topped first with medium yellow buds that open to a cluster of 6-7 light yellow

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

Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Abutilon Each 18" long x 4"Sambucus '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,