Lashed privet

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Lashed privet
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Lashed Privet ( Ligustrum ibota )

Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre : Privet ( ligustrum )
Type : Lashed privet
Scientific name
Ligustrum ibota
Siebold

The ciliated privet ( Ligustrum ibota ) is a shrub belonging to the olive family . Its distribution area is in Japan and Korea.

description

The ciliated privet is a deciduous, up to 2 meters high, bulky shrub with somewhat hairy shoots, but mostly hairless long shoots. The leaves are simple. The leaf blade is 1.5 to 5 centimeters long, oblong elliptical to rhombic ovate, pointed with a wedge-shaped base. The upper side of the leaf is dull green, the underside is lighter than the upper side and the middle nerve is long ciliate.

The flowers are four to eight in 1 to 1.5 centimeters long, head-like panicles . The single flowers have an 8 millimeter long corolla tube . The stamens do not reach over the corolla. The fruits are spherical-egg-shaped, 7 to 8 millimeters long berries . The species blooms in June.

Distribution and ecology

The natural range is in the temperate zone of Asia on the Japanese islands of Honshū , Kyushu and Shikoku and in Korea. There it grows in thickets and hedges on dry to fresh, weakly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy or loamy-humic, moderately nutrient-rich soils in sunny to light-shaded, summer-cool locations. The species is usually frost hardy.

Systematics and research history

The ciliated privet ( Ligustrum ibota ) is a kind of the genus of privet ( Ligustrum ) in the family of Oleaceae (Oleaceae), tribe Oleeae. It was first described by Philipp Franz von Siebold in 1846 . A synonym of the species is Ligustrum ciliatum Siebold ex Blume .

use

The lashed privet is rarely used commercially.

proof

literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 370.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods
  2. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 370
  3. ↑ a b Ligustrum ibota. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed February 10, 2012 .

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