Color Names

Sambucus

Dark as the berries on an elder tree, ripe and almost black.

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Sambucus is a black, close to blue.

It can be described as very dark, inky, gloomy and dim.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Sambucus

Sambucus

Sambucus is a genus of between 20 and 30 species of flowering plants in the family Viburnaceae. The various species are commonly referred to as elder, with the flowers as elderflower, and the fruit as elderberry. The genus is represented by species native to temperate and subtropical climates in most parts of the world, including Eurasia, the Americas, Africa and Australia, and has been introduced to other regions of similar climates.

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Sambucus

Proper noun

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Adoxaceae – elderberries.
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