@Topbird Agree I was thinking more of the common elder but thought the latin was Sambucus so rather confusing. I think the answer is in the root but not always easy to get out of paving. I have seen common elder with these marks before but unable to explain why.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Elder start to develop a woody stem quite quickly, GE never does, but it does have very vigorous, plump white or creamy roots, so look carefully at them if you can get it out.
That doesn’t look like Sambucus to me. It’s not growing like a tree with a straight single stem.
It looks more like a herbaceous perennial type of growth … such as Ground Elder is (Aegopodium podagraria). The roots look like Ground Elder to me as well.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You’ve got it out now 👍 and it looks very much as if you’ve got all of the roots. Fingers crossed that’s all of it 🤞 I’d just keep an eye on the area and if it reappears tackle it promptly. 😊
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.