Ligustrum vulgareL. Wild Privet

Ligustrum vulgareL. - Wild Privet

Scientific Description:

Tardily deciduous shrub to 3 m, with slender branches and smooth grey bark. Buds glabrous. Young twigs pubescent, greyish brown at maturity. Leaves 2.5−5 × 0.8−2.1 cm, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate or obovate, glabrous, with short (3−6 mm) petioles. Panicles terminal, 3−6(−7.5) cm, pubescent. Flowers fragrant. Corolla 4−5 mm, tube as long as limb. Stamens with oblong anthers shorter than corolla. Calyx 1 mm, glabrous. Berry 3−8 mm, subglobose, lustrous black.

 

Flowering time: June.

Habitat: Deciduous woodland, in mixed forest (Fagus L. – Abies L.), open scrub, moist places, somewhat calcicole, s.l.−1500 m.

 

Reference:

Yaltırık F (1978). Ligustrum vulgare L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 154–155.

Public Description:

Ligustrum vulgare, known as “wild privet”, is distributed in central and southern Europe, north Africa and southwestern Asia. It is a deciduous shrub with creamy-white flowers, up to 3 meter in length. The stems are stiff, erect, with grey-brown bark spotted. The leaves are stiff and shiny green. It blooms in June and is found in deciduous woodland, in mixed forest (Fagus L. – Abies L.), open scrub. It is a plant widely used in the landscape to create park and garden fences.

 

References:

Anonymous (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligustrum_vulgare/, Accessed date: 27.02.2016.

Güner A (2012). Ligustrum L. In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 627.