Ligustrum vulgare Wild Privet

A native, usually-deciduous shrub which occurs mostly on calcareous, well-drained soils in hedgerows and in scrub, but also occasionally planted. Although rather non-descript with its opposite leaves, which are narrower than those of Garden Privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium), it is often conspicuous when it is in flower. Small balck berries are produced in late summer and autumn.  It is widespread throughout much of Britain but many inland and upland records may be of plants that are, or derived from, planted stock. It is largely a coastal plant in West Glamorgan and fairly common in scrub areas along the south Gower coast with Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) and Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) and also in dune grasslands. It is more locally common in Neath Port Talbot, but particularly abundant in the Morfa area and in dune grassland near the Kenfig River and saltmarsh.

Native