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Himalayan Lilac

Syringa emodi

Himalayan Lilac
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Valérie75 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Oleaceae (Olive family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Pakistan to Nepal and Tibet (Jilang Xian)
Climate
temperate

About

Syringa emodi is a species in the genus Syringa, in the family Oleaceae. It is also known as Himalayan lilac.

How to grow it

Widely cultivated. Notable cultivars include:

'Aurea'

Where it grows

From the highlands of Afghanistan in the west, through the western Himalayas of northern Pakistan and northwestern India (Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand), to Nepal in the east.

Other Syringa plants

Hungarian Lilac · Nodding Lilac · Persian Lilac · Korean early lilac · Syringa oblata · Syringa reticulata subsp. pekinensis · Persian lilac · Syringa pinetorum · Syringa pinnatifolia · Daphne Lilac · Japanese tree lilac · Syringa tomentella

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Syringa emodi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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