Ligustrum quihoui
Ligustrum quihoui, rare German referred to as Quihouis privet, is a shrub of the genus privet ( Ligustrum ) in the family Oleaceae. Its distribution area is located in China and Korea.
Description
Ligustrum quihoui is a deciduous, 1 to 3 feet high, breitwüchsiger shrub with soft reddish brown hairy stems and thin, stiff, protruding branches. The leaves have a 0-5 mm long petiole. The leaf blade is simple, coarse, 1-4 rarely up to 5.5 centimeters long and 0.5 to 2 rarely to 3 inches wide, elliptic to obovate, obtuse with a pointed base. The upper leaf surface is dark green, slightly shiny and bald. There are two to four, rarely five pairs of nerves, clearly visible on both sides of the leaves, are formed.
The flowers are up to 500 in narrow, loose, 4-15 cm long and 22 rarely 2 to 4 inches wide panicles. The individual flowers are almost sessile. They have a 1.5 to 2 mm wide glabrous calyx, a 4 to 5 millimeters wide corolla and corolla tube of the same length as the corolla lobes. The stamens extend beyond the corolla lobes, the anthers 1.5 mm long. The fruits are roundish, obovate or elliptic, 5-9 mm long and 4-7 mm wide, purple-black berries. The species flowers from May to July and the fruits ripen from August to November.
Distribution and ecology
The natural range is located in the temperate zone of Asia in the Chinese provinces of Anhui, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan and Zhejiang, and Korea. The species grows in steppes and dry forests at altitudes of 100-2500 meters on dry to fresh, mildly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy, sandy- gravelly or sandy- loamy, fertile soil in light to partial shade. She is sensitive to moisture, warmth and moderately frost hardy.
Systematics and history of research
Ligustrum quihoui is a species in the genus of privet ( Ligustrum ) in the family Oleaceae ( Oleaceae ), Tribe Oleeae. The species was first described by Élie -Abel Carrière in 1869.
Use
Ligustrum quihoui is rarely used because of its decorative flowers as ornamental tree.