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Syringa oblata

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Oleaceae

Rank
  
Species

Order
  
Lamiales

Genus
  
Syringa

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Syringa oblata is a species in the genus Syringa, in the family Oleaceae. It is also known as early blooming lilac or broadleaf lilac.

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Description

Syringa oblata Syringa oblata

Similar to Syringa vulgaris, but flowers earlier and has very different leaves. Most commonly seen lilac species in China.

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  • Height: Shrub or small tree to 3.5m or 5m.
  • Stems: May be glabrous, pubescent, or puberulent (with fine, minute hairs). Shoots are glabrous.
  • Leaves: Ovate-orbicular to reniform, often slightly wider than long, measuring 2.5-10 (occasionally up to 14) cm x 2.5-8 (occasionally 15) cm. 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. Leaves colour well in fall, often turning to shades of red in autumn.
  • 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. Corolla is about 1.3 cm long and 1.7 cm across, and ranges from purple to lilac, and occasionally white; tube is subcylindric, and measures 0.6 - 1.7 (occasionally up to 2.2) cm in length. Calyx is slightly glandular. 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. Flowers appear earlier than any other species of Syringa, from April to May and June.
  • Fruit: Smooth obovate-elliptic to ovate or oblong-lanceolate capsule measures 0.7 - 1.5 (rarely 2) cm.

    • Habitat

    Gravelly mountains, roadsides, stream banks, thickets, valleys, and woods. 100-2600m altitude.

    Distribution

    China: Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, and northwest Sichuan provinces.

    Korea: Throughout.

    Cultivation

    Widely cultivated in most areas of China.

    Many hybrids are cultivated throughout Europe and the Americas, including numerous cultivars of S. X hyacinthiflora.

    Subspecies

  • Syringa oblata subsp. dilatata

    • Etymology

    Syringa oblata Syringa oblata American Nurseryman

    Oblata from the modern Latin oblatus, meaning 'somewhat flattened at the ends, oval, oblate'. Syringa is derived from the Greek word syrinx, meaning 'pipe' or 'tube'. Named for the use of its hollow stems to make flutes. In Greek mythology, the nymph Syringa was changed into a reed.

    Syringa oblata FileSyringa oblata ssp dilatata Arnold Arboretum IMG 5987JPG

    References

    Syringa oblata Wikipedia
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