Latin name: Syringa emodi

Common name: Emodi Lilac

Abbr: Sem

Taxonomy: Oleaceae/Oleeae/Syringa

References : NCBI:txid107676

Introduction: A large robust shrub, 10 to 15 ft high, the branchlets dark olive green or brownish, but freely spotted with long, narrow, pale excrescences. Leaves 3 to 8 in. long, and about half as wide, oval or sometimes ovate or obovate, tapering at the base, dark dull green above, pale, or almost white beneath. Panicles mostly columnar, 3 to 6 in. long, one or three of which terminate the young shoots. Flowers not pleasantly scented, expanding in June. Corolla 3⁄8 in. long, scarcely as much wide across the lobes, white or slightly purple tinted. Calyx bell-shaped, very shallowly lobed. Seed-vessels 3⁄4 in. long, each half ending in a slender, almost tail-like point.

Distribution: Native to the western Himalaya.

Information sources: Trees and Shrubs Online