Syringa villosa
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The Shaggy Lilac (Syringa villosa ) is a shrub with purple pink flowers of the family Oleaceae ( Oleaceae ). The natural range is in China. The species is often used as an ornamental shrub.
Description
The Shaggy Lilac is a shrub up to 4 feet high with thick, bald, slightly downy hairy to shaggy little branches. Terminal buds are present. The leaves have a 0.8 to 2.5 cm long stem. The leaf blade is simple, 4 to 11, rarely up to 18 centimeters long and 1.5 to 6, rarely up to 11 inches wide, broadly elliptic to obovate -oblong, rounded with pointed or short- pointed tip and wedge-shaped, or more or less basis. The Leaves are deep green and glabrous, the underside is blue- green, finely hairy or bearded only along the leaf veins.
The flowers grow in 5 to 13, rarely up to 17 centimeters long and 3-10 centimeters by measuring, upright, terminal, compact, hairy and leafy panicles. The flower stem is 0.5 to 1.5 mm long, the calyx 2-4 mm. The corolla is 1-2 cm wide and red- purple colored, pink or white. The corolla tube is slender, more or less cylindrical and 0.7 to 1.5 inches long. The corolla lobes are ovate to elliptic, obtuse and spread. The anthers are yellow and up to the mouth of the corolla tube or something beyond. When fruits are 1 to 1.5 inches long, more or less formed smooth, oblong capsules. The Shaggy Lilac flowers from May to June and the fruits ripen in September.
As chromosome numbers are 2n = 46 and 2n = 48 is indicated.
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The natural range is located in the Chinese provinces of Hebei and Shanxi. The Shaggy Lilac grows along rivers and canyons, and in thickets at altitudes of 1200-2200 meters on moderately dry to moist, mildly acidic to mildly alkaline, sandy or gravelly loam soils in sunny locations. The species is thermophilic and usually frost hardy.
System
The Shaggy Lilac (Syringa villosa ) is a species of the genus lilac (Syringa ) in the family Oleaceae ( Oleaceae ). There, the genus of the tribe Oleeae is assigned. The species was first described in 1804 by Martin Vahl scientifically. The genus name Syringa was chosen by Linnaeus in 1753, before the name for both the Commons lilac (Syringa vulgaris) and for the European mock orange ( Philadelphus coronary ) was used from about the 16th century. It was probably derived from the Greek " syrigs ", a wind instrument that can be made from the branches of the shrub pipes. The specific epithet villosa comes from Latin and means " shaggy ".
Use
The Shaggy lilac is often used because of the decorative flowers as an ornamental shrub.