Mostly
shrubs or vines with usually opposite leaves, mostly without stipules though
when present, small and attached to the petiole; flowers generally in cymes;
sepals joined; petals joined, corolla tubular or rotate, 4 or 5 lobed, sometimes
irregular or bilabiate, tube sometimes spurred; fruit usually fleshy,
indehiscent.
Sambucus mexicana (Sambucus cerulea)