The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Syringa pubescens
Also called Hairy Lilac
Syringa pubescens, the hairy or downy lilac, is a deciduous shrub up to about 6 m tall and wide, native to China and Korea, with heavily scented white-throated lilac flowers in early summer. It grows best in full sun with well-drained soil and a cold winter.
Syringa pubescens is a species of flowering plant in the lilac genus of the family Oleaceae, native to Korea and China (Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan).
Growing to 6 m (20 ft) tall and broad, it is a substantial deciduous shrub with green leaves felted white beneath, and panicles of heavily scented, white-throated lilac flowers in early summer.
Hungarian Lilac · Nodding Lilac · Syringa reticulata subsp. pekinensis · Syringa pinnatifolia · Japanese tree lilac · Villous lilac · Common Lilac · Lilac
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Syringa pubescens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
