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DC:
They are in Millet, Alberta. I don't know how big it is. I've never seen a cut leaf elder either. I'm thinking it's a cultivar. Most of the Google hits are garden centers.

Stoker:
I don't know.. Marinate with Round-up weekly.. I got the neighbors Sumac in my garden, hate that tree....
Thanks Leroy

burtonridr:
I'm sure you know this, but just in case, Red elderberries are supposed to be poisonous, blue elderberries are edible.

The berries look like elderberries, but yea the leaf I don't recognize..... Doesn't look like sumac to me.

Hawkdancer:
Not sure what they are, but if the birds and squirrels aren't eating the berries, leave them alone, too!  Doesn't look like sumac.  Btw, sumac makes good pipe stems, for stone Native American, First Nations style pipes.  Possible those are currant berries.
Hawkdancer

DC:
I just looked up Red Elderberry because I know people make wine from them. They have to be cooked before eating or they will cause nausea but they were used a lot by the native people. The local  Elderberry are Sambucus racemosa pubens. Red and Black are just a different variant that I'm not going to try and spell. :) We don't have Sambusa nigra here on the coast. For more info google "Norm's Farms are elderberries poisonous"

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