SAMBUCUS SPECIES IN CHINA
There may be 11 species of elderberry in China8.9.10(and grow from temperate to subtropical regions and tropical mountains. It is not clear when the Sambucus Nigra LinnEuropean elderberry and Sambucus Canadian Linn American elderberry were brought into China (Beijing Shanghai, Shandong and Jiangsu Province).
Pollen morphology is of great significance in taxonomy, phylogeny, and paleobotany. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies on pollen from cultivated fruit trees have been carried out for taxonomic purposes and cultivar identification. A pollen diagnosis for our 3 popular elderberry species investigated, European elderberry (Sambucus Nigra Linn ), American elderberry (Sambucus Canadian Linn ) and Chinese Woody-elderberry (Sambucus wiiliamsii ) been made through scanning electron microscopy are presented below Fig.2 and Fig. 3: