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词条 Ligustrum vulgare
释义

  1. Cultivation and uses

  2. Invasiveness

  3. Etymology

  4. Gallery

  5. See also

  6. References

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}}Ligustrum vulgare (wild privet, also sometimes known as common privet or European privet) is a species of Ligustrum native to central and southern Europe, north Africa and southwestern Asia, from Ireland and southwestern Sweden south to Morocco, and east to Poland and northwestern Iran.[1][2][3][4][5]

It is a semi-evergreen or deciduous shrub, growing to 3 m (rarely up to 5 m) tall. The stems are stiff, erect, with grey-brown bark spotted with small brown lenticels. The leaves are borne in decussate opposite pairs, sub-shiny green, narrow oval to lanceolate, 2–6 cm long and 0.5–1.5 cm broad. The flowers are produced in mid-summer in panicles 3–6 cm long, each flower creamy-white, with a tubular base and a four-lobed corolla ('petals') 4–6 mm diameter. The flowers produce a strong, pungent fragrance that many people find unpleasant. The fruit is a small glossy black berry 6–8 mm diameter, containing one to four seeds. The berries are poisonous to humans but readily eaten by thrushes, which disperse the seeds in their droppings.[4][5][6]

Plants from the warmer parts of the range show a stronger tendency to be fully evergreen; these have sometimes been treated as a separate variety Ligustrum vulgare var. italicum (Mill.) Vahl,[5] but others do not regard it as distinct.[1]

In the British Isles it is the only native privet, common in hedgerows and woodlands in southern England and Wales, especially in chalk areas; it is less common in northern England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, where it only occurs as an escape from cultivation.[5][7][8]

Cultivation and uses

The species was used for hedging in Elizabethan gardens in England, but was superseded by the more reliably evergreen introduction L. ovalifolium from Japan.[7]

A number of cultivars have been selected, including:[5]

  • 'Aureum' – yellow leaves.
  • 'Buxifolium' – small, oval leaves not over 2.5 cm long.
  • 'Cheyenne' – cold-tolerant clone selected in North America.
  • 'Chlorocarpum' - berries green.
  • 'Insulense' – long, narrow leaves 5–11 cm long and 1-2.5 cm broad.
  • 'Leucocarpum' – berries greenish-white.
  • 'Lodense' – dense, dwarf shrub (the name is a portmanteau of 'low' and 'dense').
  • 'Pyramidale' – fastigiate.
  • 'Xanthocarpum' – berries yellow.

Invasiveness

The species is listed as invasive as an introduced plant in Australia,[9] Canada,[10] New Zealand,[11] and the United States.[12][13] It is also fully naturalised in Mexico's highlands[14] and Argentina.[15]

Etymology

Ligustrum means ‘binder’. It was named by Pliny and Virgil.[16]

Gallery

See also

  • Privet as an invasive plant

References

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1. ^Flora Europaea: Ligustrum vulgare
2. ^Plants for a Future: Ligustrum vulgare
3. ^{{GRIN | accessdate = 17 December 2017}}
4. ^Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). Flora of Britain and Northern Europe. {{ISBN|0-340-40170-2}}
5. ^Bean, W. J. (1978). Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles vol. 2: 576–577. {{ISBN|0-7195-2256-0}}.
6. ^Flora of Northwest Europe: Ligustrum vulgare{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
7. ^The Reader's Digest Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Britain p. 52.
8. ^Flora of Northern Ireland: Ligustrum vulgare
9. ^Potential Environmental Weeds in Australia: Appendix C{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
10. ^Canadian Botanical Conservation Network: Information on Invasive Shrub and Vine Species {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827055217/http://www.rbg.ca/cbcn/en/projects/invasives/i_shrub2.html |date=2007-08-27 }}
11. ^Protecting and Restoring our Natural Heritage: Appendix one: Invasive weeds {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128124201/http://www.doc.govt.nz/publications/conservation/protecting-and-restoring-our-natural-heritage-a-practical-guide/appendix-one-invasive-weeds/ |date=2015-01-28 }}
12. ^{{cite book |url=http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/pubs/midatlantic/midatlantic.pdf | title=Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas, 4th Edition |last1=Swearingen |first1=Jil |last2=Reshetiloff |first2=K. |last3=Slattery |first3=B |last4=Zwicker |first4=S. | year=2010 |publisher=National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |page=71}}
13. ^Invasive species: European privet
14. ^Plantas medicinales. Virtudes insospechadas de plantas conocidas. 1987. Reader's Digest México S.A. de C.V. Printed by Gráficas Monte Albán S.A. de C.V. Querétaro, Mexico. {{ISBN|968-28-0099-4}}
15. ^Gavier-Pizarro, Gregorio I.; Kuemmerle, Tobias; Hoyos, Laura E.; Stewart, Susan I.; Huebner, Cynthia D.; Keuler, Nicholas S.; Radeloff, Volker C. 2012. Monitoring the invasion of an exotic tree (Ligustrum lucidum) from 1983 to 2006 with Landsat TM/ETM+ satellite data and support vector machines in Cordoba, Argentina. Remote Sensing of Environment. 122: 134-145.
16. ^Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9780521866453}} (hardback), {{ISBN|9780521685535}} (paperback). p 237
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