Ligustrum quihoui

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|name = Waxyleaf privet

|image = Ligustrum quihoui - Botanischer Garten, Frankfurt am Main - DSC02543.JPG

|genus = Ligustrum

|species = quihoui

|authority = Carrière

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Ligustrum quihoui, or waxyleaf privet, is a shrub native to Korea and China (Anhui, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Xizang (Tibet), Yunnan, Zhejiang).[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200017797 Flora of China, Ligustrum quihoui] As with some other members of the genus, L. quihoui is cultivated as an ornamental in many places and has become naturalized and invasive in urban areas and scattered forested locales of the southeastern United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland).[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LIQU2 USDA PLANTS Profile Ligustrum quihoui][http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Ligustrum%20quihoui.png Biota of North America Program, Ligustrum quihoui][http://www.hsu.edu/interior2.aspx?id=5541 Henderson State University, Arkadelphia Arkansas USA, Ligustrum quihoui] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427175719/http://www.hsu.edu/interior2.aspx?id=5541 |date=2014-04-27 }}

Ligustrum quihoui is a shrubby, semi-evergreen to evergreen privet, one to three meters high. It is noted for its large sparse flowering panicles of scented white flowers, borne late in the growing season, for which it is sometimes grown in gardens.Carrière, Élie Abel. 1869. Revue Horticole; résumé de tout ce qui parait d'intéressant en jardinage Paris 1869: 377. 1869, Ligustrum quihoui