Sambucus sieboldiana, commonly called the Japanese red elder, is a deciduous shrub in the moschatel family (Adoxaceae).

[1] Its natural habitat is in thickets and forest edges, in low elevations.

It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing up to a height of 4 metres (13 ft) tall.

It produces a panicle of small white flowers in late spring, which are insect pollinated and hermaphroditic.

[4] The Latin specific epithet sieboldiana refers to German physician and botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866).