Border privet
Ligustrum obtusifolium Siebold & Zucc.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Oleaceae
Formerly Ligustrum amurense, Ligustrum regelianum, Ligustrum suave
When it flowers
JFMAMJJASOND
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. China to JapanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 3.0 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 2.5–4 m; Wikipedia 3–3 m
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Czech
- ptačí zob tupolistý
- Swedish
- Japansk liguster
- Chinese
- 水腊树, 水蜡, 水蜡树
- Simplified Chinese
- 水蜡树, 辽东水蜡树
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Ligustrum obtusifolium (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.