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3rd July 2010, on low sea cliffs, north Arnside, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
On a low limestone cliff over-looking Grange over Sands. |
16th June 2009, Limestone Paving, Great Orme, N. Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Grows in scrub especially on lime. |
16th June 2009, Limestone Paving, Great Orme, N. Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves more elliptical than Garden Privet. Sometimes rounded at ends. |
16th June 2009, Limestone Paving, Great Orme, N. Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
A spike of flowers populates the end of a stalk, just like Garden Privet. |
16th June 2009, Limestone Paving, Great Orme, N. Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers white with four petals and with creamy bits inside. |
16th June 2009, Limestone Paving, Great Orme, N. Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The four petals join about half-way along, unlike in Garden Privet where the un-joined parts are longer. The petals have a strong tendency to go brownish even when fairly young. |
3rd July 2010, on low sea cliffs, north Arnside, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A head of the white flowers clustered together. |
3rd July 2010, on low sea cliffs, north Arnside, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers just opening, revealing inner composition. A black berry or two in the process of forming (lower middle). |
3rd July 2010, on low sea cliffs, north Arnside, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The free part of the petals are split up to half-way; on Garden Privetthey are split to over half-way. More black berries forming. The sepal-tube is long and narrow (centre top). |
3rd July 2010, on low sea cliffs, north Arnside, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Four-petalled, brilliantly white flowers. |
16th June 2009, Limestone Paving, Great Orme, N. Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The obverse of the leaves is a lighter green and without the prominent curved veins of Garden Privet. |
27th March 2011, Wandlebury Country Park, Cambridge. | Photo: © Roger Foden |
The berries are black and poisonous (as are those of Garden Privet which are seldom seen unless left un-pruned for over 9 months). |
17th June 2014, limestone pavement, Gait Barrows, Lancs. | Photo: © Roger Foden |
With some leaves more pointedly lanceolate than is usual, but still within specifications. (Garden Privet is not reported on the grykes at Gait Barrows) |
17th June 2014, limestone pavement, Gait Barrows, Lancs. | Photo: © Roger Foden |
A short spike of flowers. |
17th June 2014, limestone pavement, Gait Barrows, Lancs. | Photo: © Roger Foden |
Anthers two and an unusual (for anthers) pale-green at first. |
17th June 2014, limestone pavement, Gait Barrows, Lancs. | Photo: © Roger Foden |
Anthers turning yellow then brown. Note the single pale-green shorter style. |
Easily confused with :
Some similarities to : A member of the Olive Family, the fruit is a poisonous shiny black berry.
The results of ingesting Privet leaves or berries is at first nausea, followed by vomiting, dizziness, headaches, diarrhoea, gastric disturbances, convulsions and finally circulatory arrest. It is neurotoxic, and livestock fatalities have occurred.
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Ligustrum | vulgare | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Oleaceae |
Ligustrum (Privets) |
Olive Family [Oleaceae] |