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Ligustrum obtusifolium



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Ligustrum obtusifolium
Border privet

The very persistent oval-round black drupes are 1/4" long, slightly bloomy and produced in axillary panicles in late September, persisting through winter into spring. The fruit are more persistent than those of Ligustrum amurense.

 
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