Japanese privet
Ligustrum japonicum Thunb.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.7 m
- wide
- 1.7 m
Oleaceae
Also called Wax-leaf ligustrum, Japanese Wax-leaved Privet, Japanese Wax-Leaved Privette
Formerly Ligustridium japonicum, Ligustrum amamianum, Ligustrum coriaceum, Ligustrum glabrum, and 9 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. China to Temp. E. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia full, shade
- Height
- 1.8 m to 3.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- trueno japonés
- Japanese
- ネズミモチ
- Catalan
- troana
- French
- troène du Japon
- Chinese
- 日本女貞, 日本女贞, 日本女贞（日本毛女贞）
- Czech
- ptačí zob japonský
- Chinese (China)
- 日本女贞
- Korean
- 광나무
- Portuguese
- ligustro-japonês
- Afrikaans
- Japanese Liguster, Japanse liguster
- Russian
- Бирючина японская
- Hebrew
- ליגוסטרום יפני
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ligustrum japonicum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.