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privet
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synonyms: Ligustrum ???
tags: [botany]
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Definition:a genus of 50 species of evergreen shrubs, native to Europe & Asia. A few species are commonly planted as hedges in Europe. In the 1700's it was introduced to the US where it has become aggressively invasive, choking out the native vegetation.
photo: By Frank Vincentz - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4977922
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Melchett: Moustache? Bushy enough?
Darling: Like a privet hedge, sir.
Melchett: Good, because I want to catch a particularly beautiful creature in this bush tonight.
BBC. Blackadder, season 4: Major Star
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To get to the nurse's it was necessary to turn to the left on leaving the street, as if making for the cemetery, and to follow between little houses and yards a small path bordered with privet hedges.Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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He had spotted the gardener on a ladder, plucking paper from the privet.
John Irving. A Widow for One Year, p.109 (1998)
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Privet became very popular in Britain as a replacement for ornamental railings around properties, which had been lost to the 1941 Government compulsorily requisitioning of all post-1850 iron gates and railings for the war effort [...] The remaining stubbs of sawn-off railings can still be seen on many garden walls in the UK, often partly obscured by privet bushes.
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