Ligustrum lucidumW.T.Aiton

tree privet

WFO wfo-0000816294 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ligustrum lucidum, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. a Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-07 / obs. 195785289
Ligustrum lucidum, photographed by Diego Carús
fig. b Diego Carús, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199765978
Ligustrum lucidum, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. c Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195783941
Ligustrum lucidum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204711584
Ligustrum lucidum, photographed by Rich Sommer
fig. e Rich Sommer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195750896
Ligustrum lucidum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194883354
Ligustrum lucidum, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. g Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196743281
Ligustrum lucidum, photographed by Matias Cabezas
fig. h Matias Cabezas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192602768

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Flowering n = 1,064 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,064 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 31 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Esquirolia sinensis H.Lév.
  • Faulia verrucosa Raf.
  • Ligustrum compactum var. latifolium W.C.Cheng
  • Ligustrum esquirolii H.Lév.
  • Ligustrum hookeri Decne.
  • Ligustrum japonicum f. aureomarginatum (Rehder) Schelle
  • Ligustrum japonicum var. alivonii André
  • Ligustrum japonicum var. macrophyllum C.K.Schneid.
  • Ligustrum lucidum f. alivonii (André) Schelle
  • Ligustrum lucidum f. aureomarginatum (Rehder) Rehder
  • Ligustrum lucidum f. latifolium (W.C.Cheng) P.S.Hsu
  • Ligustrum lucidum f. lucidum
  • Ligustrum lucidum f. tricolor (Rehder) Rehder
  • Ligustrum lucidum var. alivonii (André) G.Nicholson
  • Ligustrum lucidum var. alivonii (André) Rehder
  • Ligustrum lucidum var. aureomarginatum Rehder
  • Ligustrum lucidum var. aureovariegatum Bean
  • Ligustrum lucidum var. esquirolii H.Lév.
  • Ligustrum lucidum var. tricolor Rehder
  • Ligustrum lucidum var. xideense J.L.Liu
  • Ligustrum magnoliifolium Dippel
  • Ligustrum nepalense var. glabrum Hook.
  • Ligustrum roxburghii Blume
  • Ligustrum sinense var. latifolium T.Moore

and 7 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.