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Syringa vulgaris 'Charles Joly'
Common Lilac, Magenta Lilac
Perhaps the most popular of all fragrant blooming shrubs, their showy, long flower clusters make excellent cut flowers. Blossoms come in a bluish-lilac color, and many others.

 


Syringa reticulata
Japanese Tree Lilac
Oleaceae
Located behind Jorgensen theatre along street.

Syringa Lilacs
These are the lilacs, some of which will grow almost to tree size in time. They are beautiful shrubs thriving in all reasonably fertile soils and succeeding particularly well on chalk and limestone.

Syringa 'Bailina' (Thumbelina lilac)
Syringa 'Bailina' Photo/Illustration: Courtesy of Bailey Nurseries
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Syringa vulgaris
( Arch Mckean Common Lilac )
Syringa vulgaris is a leggy, deciduous shrub, somewhat irregular in shape. Leaves are medium green, ovate to heart-shaped, up to 5 inches long.

Syringa vulgaris. LILAC. Eurasia
OLEACAEAE (Olive family)
The fragrant lilac has been tried on campus, but not many specimens seem to have survived; perhaps Stanford's winters are not cold enough.

The compact shrub, Syringa meyeri, is great in gardens with little room for a full-size lilac. One of the easiest lilacs to grow, it blooms later than most of the other species and cultivars. Add this one to the garden to extend the lilac season.

Flower: Purple to white (cultivar dependent), fragrant (not as much as Syringa vulgaris), each 1/2 inch long, trumpet shaped with 4 lobes; occur in terminal clusters of current years growth, appearing in late spring to early summer.

Syringa vulgaris
Lilacs require full sun for maximum bloom, except for areas of the hottest sun, where it needs partial sun. They prefer a slightly alkaline soil (pH 7.5).

Syringa reticulata, Herman, D.E. et al. 1996. North Dakota tree handbook. USDA NRCS ND State Soil Conservation Committee
Recommended Temperature Zone:
sunset: 1-12, 14-16
USDA: 3-8b ...

The genus name Syringa is after Syrinx, an Arcadian virgin nymph of Artemis who looked like Artemis in appearance & manner.

Syringa species
Trees and Shrubs
Sow in fall or spring, typically germinates well, can benefit from stratifying 3 weeks if no germination occurs in 4 weeks. Light needed for germination; just cover seeds.

Syringa × persica Oleaceae
Persian Lilac si-RING-ga PER-si-ka
Deciduous shrub, 4-8 ft (1.2-2.4 m) tall with a somewhat greater width, densely branched, upright, then arching.

Syringa vulgaris was followed to American continent by a parade of exotic Syringa species, most discovered during the competitive age of plant exploration called by one Victorian "the era of Omnium-Gatherum.

Syringa meyeri
Clusters of fragrant, lavender-pink flowers are borne in late spring on this small, upright to rounded deciduous shrub. It is a clean shrub, and does not have the ratty look that some lilacs get.

Syringa (Lilac) is a genus of about 20-25 species of flowering plants in the olive family (Oleaceae), native to Europe and Asia.

Syringa Baccifera is a synonym of Mitchella repens or Partridge Berry and must not be confused with S. vulgaris.

Syringa vulgaris. Common Lilac. Cultivated.
Botany in a Day
Forsythia spp. Forsythia. Cultivated.

Syringa or Mock Orange Idaho
(The state flower)
White Pine or Western White Pine (the State Tree) ...

Syringa patula 'Miss Kim' : Miss Kim Lilac - Whole Plant
Syringa vulgaris : Common Lilac - Flowers
Syringa vulgaris 'Sensation' : Sensation Common Lilac - Flowers ...

Syringa vulgaris
Other combinations are, of course, possible. For example, heads or umbels may be arranged in a corymb or a panicle.
Achillea sp. (heads in a corymb) ...

(Syringa x 'Declaration')
Star-shaped reddish purple flowers appear in large dramatic clusters in early spring. The scent is spicy sweet-the essence of spring.

Lilac (Syringa) - Where these lovely shrubs are well grown they afford beautiful effects in the home landscape as well as fragrance.

syringae exists as a large number of pathovars, (abbreviated to pv.), so-called because although all look the same, they have different, specific hosts. The pathovar morsprunorum is restricted to Prunus species, pv.

Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'
This small, compact lilac, reaching just 4-5' in height and 5-7' in width, is useful in small gardens. It blooms heavily, starting at a young age, with reddish purple buds opening to whitish pink, very fragrant flowers.

common lilac Syringa vulgaris
common mallow Malva neglecta
common morning-glory Ipomoea purpurea
common mothewort Leonurus cardiaca
common mouse-ear chickweed; hehine-hauli Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare ...

Genus " A group of related species, as the genus Ulmus (elm), the genus Syringa (lilac), embracing respectively all kinds of elms and all kinds of lilacs.

Spiraea x bumalda 'Goldflame' Gold Flame Spirea Spiraea x vanhouttei Vanhoutte Spirea Stewartia pseudocamellia Japanese Stewartia Stranvaesia davidiana Chinese Stranvaesia Styrax japonicus Japanese Snowbell Styrax obassia Fragrant Snowbell Syringa ...

Many are popular ornamentals, particularly the (Syringa), true (Jasminum), (Ligustrum), and genera; none of these has species native to the United States. Several indigenous species of (Fraxinus) are valuable for timber in North America.

As for disease, at least in Seattle the tree is hurt mostly by bacterial canker, also known as bacterial blight (Pseudomonas syringae).

Bloomerang 
purple lilac (Syringa x purple 'Penda')
h 1.5 m, Zone 3 ...

The holly, the yew, the laurel, if allowed to grow from a single stem, become trees, other plants such as rhododendron, syringa, the euonymous are properly shrubs. The word is the same as "scrub," low, stunted undergrowth, in O. Eng.

The two most common are fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) and bacterial canker (Pseudomonas syringae). The diseases look similar and are easy to spot: the infected branch or twig will look singed with scorched leaves remaining attached.

Philadelphus coronarius--Mock Orange, Sweet Syringa
PHILADELPHUS INSECTS
PHILADELPHUS DISEASES ...

Crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia indica)
Butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii)
Althea, Rose-of-Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris)
Chastetree (Vitex agnus-castus)
Azalea (Rhododendron)
* Princess Tree (Paulownia) ...

Leucothoe - rarely, and if so, just to shape - in early spring
Leycesteria
Ligustrum
Lilac (Syringa)- will tolerate hard renovation pruning also - if required.

Smoking this dried herb gives an euphoric-like effect and exuberance due to one of the active components, the mildly psychoactive alkaloid leonurine (4-guanidino-n-butyl syringate) and other diterpenes (leosibiricine, leosiberine, isoleosiberine).

Lila - Syringa vulgaris
Lila de la India - Azadirachta indica
Lila de Persia - Azadirachta indica
Lima - Citrus medica
Limonero - Citrus limonum
Limonio - Statice limonium
Limpiaplatos - Luffa cylindrica
Linaria bastarda - Linaria elatine ...

See also: May, Green, Aster, Japonica, Magnolia