Delavay's privet

Delavay's privet
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids I
Order :	Mint family (Lamiales)
Family :	Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre :	Privet ( ligustrum )
Type :	Delavay's privet
Scientific name
	Ligustrum delavayanum
	Har.

Delavay's privet ( Ligustrum delavayanum ) is a shrub belonging to the olive family . Its distribution area is in Myanmar and China.

description

Delavay's privet is an evergreen , 1 to 4 meter high, broadly branched shrub with bare or finely hairy shoots. The leaves have a 1 to 5, rarely up to 10 millimeter long petiole. The leaf blade is simple, 1 to 4 inches long and 0.6 to 2 inches wide, ovate, elliptical or oblong ovoid, pointed with a broadly wedge-shaped to rounded base. The upper side of the leaf is dark green and sometimes hairy on the central nerve, the underside is lighter than the upper side. Two to six pairs of nerves are formed.

The flowers are 100 to 250 in 3 to 5 centimeters long, hairy, cylindrical panicles with leaves at the base . The pure white single flowers have an approximately 1 millimeter wide calyx and a 4 to 7.5 millimeter wide corolla with a 5 millimeter long corolla tube. The stamens do not reach out from the corolla, the anthers are 1.5 to 2 millimeters long and purple. The fruits are spherical or elliptical, 5 to 9 rarely 11 millimeters long and 4 to 7 rarely 8 millimeters wide, black berries . The species blooms from May to July, the fruits ripen from July to December.

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 46}$

Distribution and ecology

The natural distribution area is in northern Myanmar and in the Chinese provinces of Guizhou , Hubei , Sichuan and Yunnan . There the species grows in thickets and hedges at an altitude of 500 to 3700 meters on dry to fresh, weakly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy or loamy-humic, moderately nutrient-rich soils in sunny to light-shady, summer-cool locations. The species is usually frost hardy.

Systematics and research history

Delavays privet ( Ligustrum delavayanum ) is a kind of the genus of privet ( Ligustrum ) in the family of Oleaceae (Oleaceae), tribe Oleeae. The species was first described by Paul Auguste Hariot in 1900 . Synonyms of the species are Ligustrum ionandrum Diels and Ligustrum prattii Koehne .

use

Delavay's privet is rarely grown as a container plant.

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.
Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 305 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 370
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mei-chen Chang: Ligustrum delavayanum . In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 305 (English).
^ ^A ^b Ligustrum delavayanum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed February 9, 2012 .

[deutsch-1] German name after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods

[FdG-2] Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 370

[FoC-3] Mei-chen Chang: Ligustrum delavayanum . In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 305 (English).

[GRIN-4] A ^b Ligustrum delavayanum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed February 9, 2012 .