Ligustrum lucidum

Basic information
Scientific name	Ligustrum lucidum	Click to magnify
Common names	Glossy Privet, Tree Privet
Higher taxon	Oleaceae, Scrophulariales, Magnoliopsida, Magnoliophyta
Natural range	Continental China.
Habitat	Urban area.

Invasion information
Range in Japan	Miyagi, Fukushima Prefs., and Kanto District to western Japan.
Origin	Unknown.
Date	Late 19C (1867-1885).
Route	Deliberate: As roadside tree.
Impact	Competition and hybridization with native species. Changing of food resource composition for fruit eating birds. etc. Native organism(s) affected: Native congener Ligustrum japonicum (hybridization), some other tree species (competition), fruit eating birds, etc.
Regulation in Japan	Release of this species is prohibited in Aichi Pref.
Introduced range in other countries	Unknown.

Reference	Notes
JWRC (ed) (2008) A Photographic Guide to the Invasive Alien Species in Japan. Heibonsha, Tokyo (in Jpn) Satake et al. (1989) Wild Flowers of Japan, Woody Plants [II]. Heibonsha, Tokyo (in Jpn) Yoshinaga & Kameyama (2001) Urban ecological study on expansion of glossy privet (Ligustrum lusidum Ait.). J Jpn Soc Reveg Tech. 27(1), 44-49 (in Jpn) etc.