Plant: Wax Leaf / Recurvifolia Ligustrum
Ligustrum · Ligustrum japonicum 'Recurvifolium'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A vigorous broadleaf evergreen privet whose leathery dark green leaves have wavy margins and tips that twist, giving the plant a distinctly recurved look. Creamy white panicles open in late spring and are followed by blue black drupes in fall that birds eat and spread. It grows rapidly in clay, loam or sand with good drainage, tolerates drought, salt and urban pollution, and shears well as a hedge or screen. The species is listed as an invasive species and its fruits and leaves are poisonous to people, dogs, cats and horses.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 10 ft tall and 6 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7a-10b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A vigorous broadleaf evergreen privet whose leathery dark green leaves have wavy margins and tips that twist, giving the plant a distinctly recurved look. Creamy white panicles open in late spring and are followed by blue black drupes in fall that birds eat and spread. It grows rapidly in clay, loam or sand with good drainage, tolerates drought, salt and urban pollution, and shears well as a hedge or screen. The species is listed as an invasive species and its fruits and leaves are poisonous to people, dogs, cats and horses.
- Flowers
- Creamy white flowers carried on 2 to 6 inch terminal pyramidal panicles in late spring.
- Foliage
- Opposite, leathery, glossy dark green leaves with wavy margins that are twisted at the tip, the trait that names this cultivar.
- Native range
- South East China to temperate eastern Asia
