Ligustrum lucidum
Alias: Ligustrum lucidum/Ligustrum lucidum, etc.
Family name: Oleaceae
Genus name: Ligustrum lucidum Ait
English name: Glossy Privet
Latin name: Ole. Hence the name Ligustrum lucidum.
distribution area of Ligustrum lucidum: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi and Sichuan. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, Ligustrum lucidum is also called Holly, but in fact they belong to different families. Ligustrum lucidum is a shrub and small tree with a height of only 6 meters. Holly contains long and narrow oval leaves, alternate dioecious flowers in summer, light purple, small flowers, cymes, while Ligustrum lucidum leaves are ovate-needle-shaped, opposite, with white flowers and panicles in early summer. Small evergreen trees. Leaves simple, opposite, entire, leathery, ovate or ovoid-elliptic. Flowers bisexual, white. Terminal panicle, corolla tube nearly as long as corolla lobes. The fruit is oblong, blue-purple, flowering in early summer and fruiting in November-December. The leaves of L. Japonica of Ligustrum japonicum are rounder and thicker than those of Ligustrum japonicum, and the main veins are often purplish red water wax L. Obtusifilium deciduous or semi-evergreen shrubs, with spreading branches, arched leaves, hairy backs and drooping inflorescences. Ligustrum lucidum L. Quihoui is a deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with scattered branches and sessile flowers. There are varieties such as Ligustrum lucidum with golden leaves, which are highly ornamental and widely cultivated, and are very popular. Small wax L. sinense evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub with densely pubescent branchlets and pedicels.
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Morphological features
Morphological features are generally about 6 meters high. The leaves are leathery and crisp, oval, broadly oval, oval or ovate-lanceolate, 6-l2 cm long and hairless. Panicle is 12-2 cm long. Drupe is oblong, purple-blue, about 1 cm long. Evergreen tree with oval crown. The bark is grayish green, smooth and not cracked. Branches spread out, smooth and hairless. The single leaf is opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, the apex is acuminate, the base is wedge-shaped or nearly round, the entire leaf is dark green, shiny, hairless, and the back is light green and leathery. Flowering from June to July, with white flowers and terminal panicles. Berry drupe is nearly kidney-shaped, ripe in October and November, and dark blue when ripe.
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