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Broad-leaved Privet
Ligustrum lucidum
Broad-leaved Privet
DESCRIPTION
Shrub or small tree to 10m tall; branchlets with conspicuous white lenticels. Ovate to elliptic or narrow-ovate leaves 4–13cm long by 3–5cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded, margins entire, leaves are discolorous with a paler lower surface. Petioles 10–20mm long.
FLOWERS AND FRUIT
Dense panicles 15–25cm long of white flowers; pedicels 1–3mm long; shallowly lobed tubular calyx 1–1.5mm long; corolla tube 1mm long with lobes 2–4mm long; strongly exserted stamens; filaments 2–3mm long. Globose blue-black berries about 8mm long.
HABITAT AND RANGE
Coastal districts from Melbourne north to the wet tropics (inland to West Wyalong). Native to China and Japan. Frequently planted as a hedge and often invasive in rainforests.
