The elder trees I grew up with were more like a slow-growing bamboo, a thin 1mm to 2mm surface wood around a pith centre. In fact, wiki's page on pith uses elde

The elder trees I grew up with were more like a slow-growing bamboo, a thin 1mm to 2mm surface wood around a pith centre. In fact, wiki's page on pith uses elder as it's example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pith#/media/File:Elder_pith.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pith#/media/File:Elder_pith.jp...