Gewone vlier aan de achterkant van een maison, route de Thionville, Metz, Frankrijk

For Sisley: I never look at it as a tree, but in the floodplains of danube at the area where the "Aukönig" stands, there is a "subforrest" of sambucus nigra.

And additionally I know one "Baumhazel", as a big tree, I try to find them and registrate here, but when I remember right its more than 15 Meter.

lg Scholem

For the time being it's the tallest that I have see.

It's possible that we find a little more in hight, because this specimens grow without competition in a open field and not in a dense vegetation.

For hazel, it's difficult to find more tall than 15 m.

I had found an hawthorne of 12,.. m,we can see higher,but 16 m I don't know.

75 centimetres, of course ;-)

Rob,

I am very impressed by your 75 metres girth elder!

Jeroen

16 metres height 75 metres girth Creagh House, Skibbereen House, Co Cork, Ireland 2002

Doesn't sound like a particularly impressive tree, you may be able to surpass this Sisley?

Don't wine about this tree (bum, bum) Fine speciman Sisley, you are good at finding them. Funny thing, it had never occured to me to go looking for speciman Elderberry trees, they are so common and like weeds around here. I will have to keep a look out now. Is this the tallest recorded in Europe, what is the tallest ever recorded? Don't know what the UK champion is, have to have a look. Hazel is another that you (I) have never thought to look for. Hawthorne is another that I am now keeping an eye out for as well although harder to identify at this time of year with no leaves.

Yes, it will be difficult for the picking ;-)

I think that in the futur, I will have difficulty to find higher, maybe in the edge of small hedge..

And how do some harvest the fruits?

Wow, what a specimen!