Common Privet (Ligustrum vulgare)

Common Privet, a reference photo — Photo: Rasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0 (licence)

Ligustrum vulgare (wild privet, also sometimes known as common privet or European privet) is a species of Ligustrum native to central and southern Europe, north Africa and southwestern Asia, from Ireland and southwestern Sweden south to Morocco, and east to Poland and northwestern Iran.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Common Privet being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

Ligustrum ovalifolium
Ligustrum obtusifolium
Ligustrum sinense

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Oleaceae
Genus: Ligustrum
Species: Ligustrum vulgare

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