Ligustrum obtusifolium
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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
| Botanical name: | Ligustrum obtusifolium |
| Common name: | border privet |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Oleaceae |
| Growth type: | shrub |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | introduced |
| Plant height: | 10 - 12' |
| Foliage: | leaves simple, elliptical, opposite, and entire, deep green |
| Flower: | white flowers, in narrow panicles; bears small black drupe in September that persists |
| Flowering time: | fearly to late June |
| Habitat: | well-drained ground of shaded woods edges, roadsides |
| Range in New Jersey: | Hough list Somerset & Hunterdon; this author has it escaped in Cumberland county |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | Becoming invasive, and not recommended for garden planting for that reason. Native to Japan, Korea, and China. |