Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ligustrum lucidum
Common name
Broad-leaf privet, Large-leaved privet
Family
Oleaceae
Where found
Rainforest, especially in regrowth, woodland, grassland, pastures, disturbed sites, roadsides, gullies, and stream banks. Sydney area west to the Blue Mountains and south to Nowra and Goulburn. Canberra. Elsewhere mainly in towns and along roads.
Notes
Introduced tree or shrub to 25 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark with lenticels and blisters, sometimes slightly fissured. Branchlets cylindrical, with conspicuous lenticels. Leaves opposite each other, 4–24 cm long, 25–80 mm wide, leathery, hairless, upper surface dark green, glossy or shiny, lower surface paler with distinct veins, tips pointed. Flowers fragrant, sickly sweet, white to cream, tubular, the tube 3-4 mm long, with 4 lobes 2–6 mm long. Flowers in dense branched clusters 8–25 cm long. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit green turning red, then blue to glossy or purplish black as they ripen, round, 5-10 mm long.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW. General Biosecurity Duty with additional restrictions in the Central Tablelands, NSW. Pest plant ACT.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ligustrum~lucidum (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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