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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Ligustrum vulgare in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Ligustrum vulgare, Linn. Common Privet or Prim. Shrub, to 15 ft.: branchlets and panicles puberulous: leaves oblong-ovate to lanceolate, obtuse or acute, glabrous: panicle rather dense, pyramidal, 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 in. long; stamens shorter than the limb. June, July. Eu., N. Afr., W. Asia. Naturalized in some places, chiefly in the E. —Many garden forms. Var. buxifolium, Nichols. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse, half-evergreen. Var. glaucum, Hoefker (var. glaucum albo-marginatum, Spaeth). Leaves bluish green, with narrow white margin. Var. sempervirens, Loud. (L. vulgare var. italicum, Kirchn. L. italicum, Mill. L. sempervirens, Pieri). Leaves linear-lanceolate, almost evergreen. Var. pendulum, Hort., with pendulous branches. Var. pyramidale, Spaeth, with strictly upright branches. There are also varieties with frs. of different colors, as var. chlorocarpum, Loud., with greenish, var. leucococarpum, Loud., with whitish, and var. xanthocarpum, Loud., with yellowish frs. Variegated forms are: var. aureum, Hort., with yellow foliage, and var. variegatum, Hort., with the leaves blotched yellow. Var. lutescens, Hort., has deep cream-yellow flowers. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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