Botanical name: Syringa vulgaris
Family: Oleaceae (olive)

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• Deciduous
• A tall, medium size shrub that sometimes looks like a small tree.
• Height is 7 to 16′ and can get up to 12′ wide.
• Leaves are simple, opposite, ovate, 2 to 4 inches long and vibrant green.
• Blossoms in mid. to late spring with sweet fragrant clusters of mauve flowers, 4 to 8 inches long.
• Branches can grow fairly straight or turn into many winding stems moving in a twisting and spiral course.
• Lower parts of the branches and twigs don’t grow leaves
• Bark is light to dark grey, smooth when it is young and shreds when it’s older and larger in diameter.
• Creates many suckers each year.
• Likes Full sun.
• Problems with frequent mildew in humid places.
• Susceptible to leaf miners, scale and borers, leaf spots
• blights, wilt and other viruses.
• Hardiness Zone 3 – 7