Syringa oblata
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| Syringa oblata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Oleaceae |
| Genus: | Syringa |
| Species: | S. oblata |
| Binomial name | |
| Syringa oblata | |
Syringa oblata[1][2][3][4][5] is a species in the genus Syringa, in the family Oleaceae. It is also known as early blooming lilac or broadleaf lilac.[2]
Similar to Syringa vulgaris, but flowers earlier and has very different leaves.[3] Most commonly seen lilac species in China.[5]
- Height: Shrub or small tree to 3.5m[4] or 5m.[2]
- Stems: May be glabrous, pubescent, or puberulent (with fine, minute hairs).[2] Shoots are glabrous.[3]
- Leaves: Ovate-orbicular to reniform,[2][4] often slightly wider than long, measuring 2.5[2]-10[2][4] (occasionally up to 14) cm x 2.5-8 (occasionally 15) cm.[2][3] Leaves range from glabrous to pubescent, villous, or glabrescent (losing hairs with age). Base is truncate to subcordate or broadly cuneate, with an abruptly acute to long acuminate apex.[2] Leaves colour well in fall, often turning to shades of red in autumn.[3][4]
- Flowers: Panicles are lateral, congested, lax, or erect, and measure 4 - 16 (occasionally as much as 20) cm x 3 - 8 (occasionally 10) cm. Pedicel to 3 mm in length, and may be either pubescent or glabrous.[2] Corolla is about 1.3 cm long and 1.7 cm across,[3] and ranges from purple to lilac,[2][3] and occasionally white; tube is subcylindric, and measures 0.6 - 1.7 (occasionally up to 2.2) cm in length.[2] Calyx is slightly glandular.[3] Lobes are oblong to obovate-orbicular or ovate-orbicular and measure 4 - 8 (occasionally 10) mm, spreading. Anthers are yellow, inserted in corolla tube to 4 mm from the mouth.[3] Flowers are fragrant and appear earlier than any other species of Syringa,[4] from April[3] to May[2][3] and June.[2]
- Fruit: Smooth obovate-elliptic to ovate or oblong-lanceolate capsule measures 0.7 - 1.5 (rarely 2) cm.[2]
Habitat
Gravelly mountains, roadsides, stream banks, thickets, valleys, and woods. 100-2600m altitude.[2]
Distribution
Cultivation
Widely cultivated in most areas of China.
Many hybrids are cultivated throughout Europe and the Americas, including numerous cultivars of S. x hyacinthiflora, Victor Lemoine's hybrid with S. vulgaris.[2]