I think your right as it looks like elder,I've always enjoyed ferreting,I got the ferreting bug as a young lad going out with me grandfather when me mother asked him to take me with him to keep me out of her hair ? I'd sit and watch me grandad knit purse nets ,his hands lighting fast and when I asked why you not looking at what your doing he just laughed and said my fingers do the work not me eyes lad .
I remember me gran whittling flowers out of elder and pegs out of willow to hawk around the doors,she would get us kids to collect all the willow and elder then get each one of us to do a