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Ligustrum quihoui; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-09-12

Ligustrum quihoui Carrière

Waxyleaf privet; Quihoui privet

Oleaceae · China South-Central, Inner Mongolia +4

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Summary

Ligustrum quihoui, or waxyleaf privet, is a shrub native to Korea and China (Anhui, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Xizang (Tibet), Yunnan, Zhejiang). As with some other members of the genus, L. quihoui is cultivated as an ornamental in many places and has become naturalized and invasive in urban areas and scattered forested locales of the southeastern United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland).

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ligustrum quihoui", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Ligustrum

A privet is a flowering plant in the genus Ligustrum. The genus contains about 50 species of erect, deciduous or evergreen shrubs or trees, with a native distribution from Europe to tropical and subtropical Asia, and with one species each native to Australia and north Africa. Some species have become widely naturalized or invasive where introduced. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Privet", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 132 of the 133 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Inner Mongolia, China North-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Korea · introduced: Oklahoma, Alabama, Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker32.089, 109.816 · in the densest population, 30 records (23% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 133 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 54 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 95 km away. 1399 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 132 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 133 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Sam Kieschnick, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Ligustrum 20 in the reference

Ligustrum compactum Oleaceae Ligustrum confusum Oleaceae Ligustrum delavayanum Ligustrum delavayanum Oleaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, FreCha Ligustrum foliosum Korean privet Ligustrum henryi Oleaceae Ligustrum ibota Ligustrum ibota Oleaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof GolikLigustrum japonicum Ligustrum japonicum Japanese privet Photo: CC BY, WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁 Ligustrum leucanthum Sharp-leaf privet Ligustrum liukiuense Ligustrum liukiuense Oleaceae Photo: CC BY, 謝麗霦Ligustrum lucidum Ligustrum lucidum Glossy privet Photo: CC BY, Alison NorthupLigustrum obtusifolium Ligustrum obtusifolium Border privet Photo: CC BY, Sandy WolkenbergLigustrum ovalifolium Ligustrum ovalifolium Garden privet Photo: CC0, author not stated all 21 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Ligustrum argyi; Ligustrum brachystachyum; Ligustrum quihoui var. brachystachyum; Ligustrum quihoui var. quihoui; Ligustrum quihoui var. trichopodum and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Oleaceae
Described by
Carrière
Native to
China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, China North-Central +3
Wild records
133 in range · 54 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 28 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (23 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 4 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 30 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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