Privet

Common Privet ( Ligustrum vulgare)

The privet ( Ligustrum ), or rarely called Rain pastures, are a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae ( Oleaceae ).

Description

Ligustrum species grow as deciduous or evergreen shrubs or trees. The oppositely arranged leaves are constantly short-stalked, simple and entire.

The flowers are borne in terminal or axillary, often paniculate inflorescences. The hermaphrodite, fourfold flowers often fragrant. The four sepals are fused bell-shaped. The four petals are mostly white Roehrig grown up in a funnel shape. The two stamens do not protrude from the corolla tube. Two carpels are fused into a superior ovaries. There shall be one to dreisamige berries or drupes.

Occurrence

The Ligustrum species have areas in the Old World. Most species have their home in eastern Asia, a few in Europe, Africa and Australasia. In Europe, only the Common Privet ( Ligustrum vulgare ) is native.

A few species are cultivated as ornamental trees and especially used in gardens for planting hedges. Most of these species are originally from Japan or China. Privet is often planted as a cutting hedge.

System

The genus Ligustrum belongs to the tribe Oleeae in the family Oleaceae. Synonyms for Ligustrum L. are: Esquirolia H.Lév .. Faulia Raf, Ligustridium Spach, Parasyringa WWSm, Phlyarodoxa S.Moore, Visiania DC ... .

There are about 40 to 50 Ligustrum species ( selection):

• Ligustrum compactum ( wall. ex G.Don ) Hook. f & Thomson ex Brandis: The home is India, Nepal, Bhutan and China ( Hebei, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan )
• Ligustrum confusum Decne. The home is India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and China ( Xizang, Yunnan )
• Delavays privet ( Ligustrum delavayanum Har. ): The home is Myanmar and China ( Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan )
• Ligustrum foliosum Nakai: The home is Korea
• Ligustrum glomeratum Flower: The home is Java
• Ligustrum henryi Hemsl. The home is China ( Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan )
• Ligustrum × ibolium Coe ex Rehder = L. obtusifolium × L. ovalifolium
• Ciliated privet ( Ligustrum ibota sieve. ): The home is Japan and Korea
• Japanese privet ( Ligustrum japonicum Thunb. ): The home is Japan, Korea and Taiwan
• Ligustrum liukiuense Koidz. The home of the Ryukyu Islands of Japan
• Glossy privet or gloss privet ( Ligustrum lucidum WTAiton ): The home is China; the species is naturalized but also found in Africa, Australia, America and New Zealand
• Ligustrum morrisonense Kaneh. & Sasaki: The home is Taiwan
• Ligustrum nepalense Wall:. The home is India, Nepal and Myanmar
• Rumex privet (. Ligustrum Sieb & Zucc obtusifolium. ): The home is China, Korea and Japan
• Ovalblättriger privet (. Ligustrum ovalifolium Hassk ), also called broad-leaved privet; his home is Japan and Korea
• Ligustrum pricei Hayata: The home is Taiwan.
• Ligustrum quihoui Carrière: The home is China and Korea
• Ligustrum robustum ( Roxb. ) Blume: The home is India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam Tahailand, Sumatra and China; naturalized it also occurs in North America, Mauritius and Réunion
• Ligustrum sempervirens ( Franch. ) Lingelsh. The home is China (Sichuan, Yunnan )
• Chinese privet ( Ligustrum sinense Lour. ): The home is China, Taiwan, Laos, and Vietnam; naturalized comes the kind in South Africa, North America, Australia and New Zealand before
• Ligustrum strongylophyllum Hemsl. The home is China ( Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan )
• Ligustrum tschonoskii Decne. The home are Japan, the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin
• Common Privet ( Ligustrum vulgare L.): The home is Europe, Western Asia and Morocco; naturalized but the species occurs also in South Africa, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Swell

• Mei - chen Chang, Lien -ching Chiu, Zhi Wei & Peter S. Green: Oleaceae in the Flora of China, Volume 15, 1996, p 299: Ligustrum - Online. ( Description section )