Common Name:
Privet
About 50 species of evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, glabrous, with short petioles. Flowers small, white, in terminal clusters (panicles), corolla tubular, 4-lobed, 2 stamens. Fruit a black, fleshy drupe, 1-4 seeded. Native to Europe, northern Africa, eastern and southeastern Asia, Australia
Ligustrum: the Latin name for privet.
Pronunciation:
li-GUS-trum
Family:
Oleaceae