Common name: European Privet
Ligustrum vulgare L. APNI* 
Description: Deciduous or semideciduous shrub to 5 m high; young branchlets finely pubescent, older branchlets with white lenticels.
Leaves lanceolate to elliptic 2.5–6 cm long, 0.8–2 cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate, margins entire, lamina ± concolorous, glabrous; petiole 1–3 mm long.
Panicles 3–8 cm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long. Flowers strongly scented. Calyx tube c. 1.5 mm long; lobes 1.5–2 mm long. Corolla white or cream; tube 1–2 mm long; lobes c. 3 mm long. Stamens shortly exserted; filaments c. 2 mm long.
Berry ovoid to globose, 6–8 mm long, black, shining.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Garden escape, locally naturalized in the Yetman area, Guyra-Armidale district, near Robertson and near Yarrongobilly Caves. Native of S Eur. & N Afr.
NSW subdivisions: *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS
Other Australian states: *Tas. *S.A.
Text by D. W. Hardin (1992); edited KL Wilson (August 2008)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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