I have not ever seen this exact species from Japan. It is one of several species of East Asian privets that are deciduous to semi-evergre...Read Moreen that are hard to tell apart being also the Amur and California Privets. A hybrid of this species and the California Privet, the Ibolium Privet, Ligustrum x ibolium, is sometimes planted. The twigs of Border Privet are green and hairy in spring. The variety of L. obtusifolium regalianum, the Regal's Privet, is a shorter, spreading form about 5-6 feet high x 6-8 feet wide that is sometimes sold by nurseries as balled and burplapped. If anyone finds this straight species, it becomes a large, straggly shrub with some sharp spurs, would be used as a sheared hedge, and it would be invasive into the wild of North America like the others.
I have not ever seen this exact species from Japan. It is one of several species of East Asian privets that are deciduous to semi-evergre...Read More
I have been digging the roots of this plant for the past 20 years. The hedge I had to remove was clearly never successful. It is invasive.