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Oleaceae
Privet
Ligustrum vulgare
Defense and prohibition.
- Family
- Oleaceae
- Genus
- Ligustrum
- Native to
- Europe, North Africa, Western Asia
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer
- Type
- shrub
- Height
- 6-15 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- adaptable, well-drained
- Water
- moderate
- Hardiness
- 4-8
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- Privet hedges have been used in English gardens since Roman times as living fences and windbreaks.
- Its heavily scented flowers are loved by butterflies but disliked by many people for their cloying sweetness.
- The berries are mildly toxic to humans but are an important winter food source for birds like thrushes.
- Privet is the plant family relative of olives and jasmine, all belonging to the Oleaceae family.
- In the Harry Potter series, the Dursleys famously live on Privet Drive, named after this common hedge shrub.
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