Wild privet, also sometimes known as common privet or European privet (Ligustrum vulgare)
A privet is a flowering plant in the genus Ligustrum. The genus contains about 50 species of erect, deciduous or evergreen shrubs, sometimes forming small or medium-sized trees,[1] native to Europe, north Africa, Asia, many introduced and naturalised in Australasia, where only one species, Ligustrum australianum,[2] extends as a native into Queensland.[3] Some species have become widely naturalized or invasive where introduced. Privet was originally the name for the European semi-evergreen shrub Ligustrum vulgare, and later also for the more reliably evergreen Ligustrum ovalifolium and its hybrid Ligustrum × ibolium used extensively for privacy hedging, though now the name is applied to all members of the genus.[4] The generic name was applied by Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) to L. vulgare.[5] It is often suggested that the name privet is related to private, but the OED states that there is no evidence to support this.[6]
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