Ligustrum vulgare
Poisonous plant
Common names
common privet
Family
Oleaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Exotic
Structural class
Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons
NVS code
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.
LIGVUL
Conservation status
Not applicable
Similar taxa
Plant moderately deciduous; leaf midrib glabrose; anthers yellow.
Flower colours
White
Year naturalised
1872
Origin
Europe
Poisonous plant
Poisonous purplish-black berries.