The Judas tree is named from the legend that Judas Iscariot hanged himself upon one of the trees. The same legend was current about the elder tree. The. excrescences on the bark of the elder tree are still known as “Jew’s ears,” or “Judas’s ears.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 911, 4 November 1933, Page 11
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