| Scientific Name: | Ligustrum vulgare |
| Common Name: | common privet |
| Family Name: | Oleaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - northern, Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Semi-evergreen, Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Twiggy, Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Sheared hedge, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Black, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, 2-6cm long x 0.5-1.5cm wide, dull green; flowers 4-6mm wide, 4 white petals, unpleasantly scented, formed in summer in cymose panicles (thryse) 3-6cm long; berries 4-6mm wide, dark purple to black (poisonous to humans). | |