privet

privet

A shrub with opposite leaves and clusters of small flowers, often planted and trimmed as a hedge.

Ligustrum vulgare

All languages

English: privet
Norwegian: liguster
Japanese: イボタノキ — いぼたのき — ibotanoki
Korean: 쥐똥나무류 — jwittongnamuryu
Spanish: aligustre
French: troène
German: Liguster

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Reference sources

RHS common privet — bushy semi-evergreen shrub with dark lance-shaped leaves and terminal panicles of small summer white flowers
NC State Extension — privet opposite entire lanceolate leaves, gray-brown thin stems and terminal four-part tubular white flowers