Shiny privet
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The Shining privet or gloss privet ( Ligustrum lucidum ) is a large shrub or small tree of the family Oleaceae . Its distribution area is in China and Korea.
description
The shiny privet is an evergreen or deciduous shrub or tree up to 25 meters high with bare shoots and twigs covered with cork pores . The leaves have a 1 to 3 centimeter long petiole. The leaf blade is simple, leathery, 6 to 17 inches long and 3 to 8 inches wide, egg-shaped, lanceolate, pointed or pointed with a broad wedge-shaped base. The upper side of the leaf is glossy dark green, the underside is lighter than the upper side. Six to eight easily visible pairs of nerves are formed on both sides of the leaf.
The flowers are up to 500 in 12 to 20 centimeters long and equally wide panicles . The cream-colored single flowers are sessile or almost sessile. They have an approximately 1.5 to 2 millimeter wide calyx , a 4 to 5 millimeter wide corolla and a corolla tube of similar length as the corolla lobes. The stamens reach to the tips of the corolla, the anthers are 1 to 1.5 millimeters long. The fruits are kidney-shaped, 7 to 10 millimeters long and 4 to 6 millimeters wide, deep blue-black berries .
The species blooms from May to July.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 46.
Distribution and ecology
The natural range is in the temperate zone of Asia in China and Korea. He was naturalized in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, North and South America. The species grows in steppes and dry forests at altitudes up to 2900 meters on fresh, weakly acidic to weakly alkaline, sandy-loamy to loamy, moderately nutrient-rich soils in light to partially shaded locations. It loves warmth and is moderately frost hardy.
Systematics and research history
The Shining privet ( Ligustrum lucidum ) is a kind from the kind of privet ( Ligustrum ) in the family of Olive Family (Oleaceae), Tribe Oleeae. The species was first described by William Townsend Aiton in 1810 .
use
The shiny privet is rarely used for forestry purposes. Due to the decorative flowers, it is used as an ornamental wood , whereby several varieties are distinguished, including 'Tricolor' with pink young and yellow older leaves and 'Excelsum Superbum' with deep yellow variegated leaves and small white flowers that are cream-colored towards the edge. Although the berries are poisonous, they are used in China to prevent bone marrow wasting, for chemotherapy, and for AIDS and hepatitis.
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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. 371.
- Mei-chen Chang: Ligustrum lucidum . 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. 302 (English).
- Gordon Cheers (Ed.): Botanica: Trees & Shrubs . Tandem, 2006, ISBN 3-8331-2003-7 , pp. 518 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods and cheers: Botanica trees & bushes
- ↑ a b c d e Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 371
- ↑ a b c Flora of China , Volume 15, p. 302
- ↑ a b Cheers: Botanica Trees & Shrubs , p. 518
- ^ Ligustrum lucidum at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ a b c Ligustrum lucidum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed February 11, 2012 .
