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Syringa vulgaris Family: N.O. Oleaceae ---Parts Used---Leaves,
fruit. ---Habitat---Persia, mountainous regions of Eastern
Europe. ---Description---A shrub or small tree up to 20 feet in
height producing a crowd of erect stems, occasionally a trunk
over 2 feet in girth, clothed with spirally arranged flakes of
bark. Shoots and leaves smooth, leaves heart-shape or ovate, 2
to 6 inches long, from 3/4 to almost as much wide near the base;
stalk 3/4 to 1 1/2 inch long. Panicles pyramidal, 6 to 8 inches
long, usually in pairs from the terminal buds, flowers fragrant;
corolla tube 1/3 to 1/2 inch long; lobes concave; calyx and
flower-stalks have gland tipped down; seed vessels smooth, 5/8
inch long, beaked. Introduced to Britain during time of Henry
VIII, mentioned in an inventory taken at Norwich by Oliver
Cromwell. Syringa Baccifera is a synonym of Mitchella repens or
Partridge Berry and must not