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Syringa pubescens, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) John Rusk, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · CC BY-NC-SA
#1619 most planted

Syringa pubescens

Lilac · also Korean lilac, Manchurian lilac

BroadleafDeciduous
27
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
1
city
8.3 in
median trunk (21 cm, 27 measured)
19 yr
median age (100% have a planting date)

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Syringa pubescens is a substantial deciduous shrub, native to Korea and China. It features green leaves that are felted white beneath and produces panicles of heavily scented, white-throated lilac flowers in early summer.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Boston · United States
    2719 yr8.3 in

Traits

Form
Broadleaf
Foliage
Deciduous
Mature height
20 ft
Canopy spread
20 ft
Blooms
Jun, Jul

Trunk diameters across every city: median 8.3 in, mean 8.3 in, 90th percentile 8.3 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
  • Central Korean deciduous forests
  • Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
  • Southern Korea evergreen forests

Other Syringa in the catalogue

13 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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