| Scientific Name: | Ligustrum obtusifolium ( syn. L. amurense ) |
| Common Name: | Amur privet, border privet |
| Family Name: | Oleaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °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, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Sheared hedge, Specimen plant, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Elliptic, Oblong, Obovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Black, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, most elliptical, 3-6cm long x 1-3cm wide, underside pubescence along midrib, dark green; cymose panicles (thryse) 3-4cm long, flowers small, white, unpleasantly scented, corolla tube longer than the separated petal lobes, May-June; berries 4-6mm wide, oval, dark purple to black (poisonous). Winter ID: multi-stem trunk, bark grey-brown, lenticels horizontal, short, tan coloured; opposite buds with two scales and their edges meet. | |