- Ligustrum ovalifolium Hassk. - Garden Privet - Oleaceae
© Paul Hackney
© Paul Hackney
© Alan Hill
(Map updated: March 2008)
A species introduced from Japan and most familiar as a traditional garden hedging shrub, occasionally also found planted in shrubberies.
More unusually, it was sometimes used as a rural field hedging shrub in parts of south east Co Antrim in the nineteenth century, and today field boundaries composed entirely of this plant may still be found in this area.
All names: Ligustrum ovalifolium Hassk.
NBN Atlas mapping: Species account : NBN Atlas UK Species Observations database
iNaturalist: Species account : iNaturalist World Species Observations database