Ligustrum ovalifolium

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Ligustrum ovalifolium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Oleaceae
Genus: Ligustrum
Species:
L. ovalifolium
Binomial name
Ligustrum ovalifolium

Ligustrum ovalifolium, also known as Korean privet,

native to Japan and Korea.[3]

Description

Ligustrum ovalifolium is a dense, fast-growing, deciduous (evergreen/semi-evergreen in warm winter areas) shrub or small tree. It grows to 10–15 feet (3.0–4.6 m) tall and wide.[4] Its thick, fleshy leaf is green on the top, and greenish-yellow on the underside.[3]

It flowers in midsummer, the abundant white blooms producing a unique pungent fragrance, unpleasant to some.

growing degree days.[citation needed
]

The fruits, borne in clusters, are small purple to black

drupes, poisonous for humans but readily eaten by many birds.[3] In favorable growing conditions, individual shrubs may produce thousands of fruits.[5]

Uses

Ligustrum ovalifolium is used as a food plant by the

the engrailed, mottled beauty, scalloped hazel, small angle shades, the V-pug and willow beauty.[4]

All parts of plant are poisonous if ingested by humans.[6]

Cultivation

The species is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in many countries, as a shrub, and grouped for an informal or formal hedge.[4][3] Privets need to be trimmed several times during a growing season, in order to maintain a formal hedge shape. Regularly trimmed plants do not produce flowers or fruit.

Ligustrum ovalifolium is the most common hedging plant species in cultivation in the United Kingdom.[7][8]

Several

UK it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[10][11] With Ligustrum obtusifolium it is a parent of the hybrid Ligustrum × ibolium.[12]

Ligustrum ovalifolium 'Vicaryi', a yellow-leaved shrub, was once thought to be a hybrid between L. ovalifolium 'Aureum' and Ligustrum vulgare, for which the name Ligustrum × vicaryi was published. Studies of both chloroplast and nuclear DNA showed that L. vulgare was not involved in its parentage, both of its parents being L. ovalifolium. Accordingly, it was given a cultivar name. Its year-round yellow leaves and white flowers in midsummer make it an attractive hedging plant or ornamental shrub.[13]

Naturalized—invasive species

The species is reportedly naturalized in

Juan Fernandez Islands, Ontario, and in the United States.[14][15]

Ligustrum ovalifolium has also been listed as an invasive species in areas of the United States, including: California, Hawaii, Washington state, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, and many of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states.[16][17][18] 46 states have it listed on their noxious weed lists.[19]

Etymology

Ligustrum means "binder". It was named by Pliny and Virgil.[20] The Latin specific epithet ovalifolium means "oval-leaved".[21]

References

  1. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2016 – via Korea Forest Service
    .
  2. ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Bellarmine University: Ligustrum ovalifolium (California Privet)
  4. ^ a b c Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder: Ligustrum ovalifolium (California privet)
  5. ^ Hasskarl, Justus Carl. 1844. Catalogus Plantarum in Horto Botanico Bogoriensi Cultarum Alter 119.
  6. ^ PlantFiles: Ligustrum ovalifolium
  7. ISBN 978-1405332965
    .
  8. ISBN 0946752176
    .
  9. ^ PlantFiles: Detailed information on Golden Privet—Ligustrum ovalifolium 'Aureum'
  10. ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Ligustrum ovalifolium 'Aureum'". Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  11. ^ "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 60. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  12. ^ "Ligustrum × ibolium". Plant Finder. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  13. ^ Edwards, Dawn (2016). "The origin of Ligustrum × vicaryi". The Plantsman. New Series. 15 (3): 160–161.
  14. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Ligustrum ovalifolium
  15. ^ Biota of North America Program, Ligustrum ovalifolium
  16. ^ Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States: Ligustrum ovalifolium (California privet)
  17. ^ Swearingen, Jil; Reshetiloff, K.; Slattery, B; Zwicker, S. (2010). Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas, 4th Edition (PDF). National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. p. 71.
  18. ^ CalFlora Database: Ligustrum ovalifolium
  19. ^ USDA: U.S. Weed Information for Ligustrum ovalifolium (California privet)
  20. ISBN 9780521685535
    (paperback). p 237
  21. ISBN 978-1845337315
    .

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ligustrum ovalifolium.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ligustrum_ovalifolium&oldid=1009824292"