The Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) is a deciduous plant from the olive family (Oleaceae), originating from southeastern Europe, where it grows in the wild on rocky hills. It is a very common ornamental plant in gardens and parks, because of the attractive, sweet smell of its flowers. Most garden plants are cultivars with flowers varying in color from white to dark lilac. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Order Lamiales is a taxon in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ... Genera Abeliophyllum - Chionanthus - fringetree Fontanesia - Forestieria - swamp-privet Forsythia - forsythia Fraxinus - ash Jasminum - jasmine Ligustrum - privet Notelaea - Olea - olive Osmanthus - devilwood Phillyrea - mock-privet Picconia - Schrebera - Syringa - lilac Oleaceae, the olive family, is a plant family containing 24 genera of woody plants, including shrubs, trees and vines. ... Alternate meaning: Lilac (color) Species About 20-25 species; see text. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish scientist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... Genera Abeliophyllum - Chionanthus - fringetree Fontanesia - Forestieria - swamp-privet Forsythia - forsythia Fraxinus - ash Jasminum - jasmine Ligustrum - privet Notelaea - Olea - olive Osmanthus - devilwood Phillyrea - mock-privet Picconia - Schrebera - Syringa - lilac Oleaceae, the olive family, is a plant family containing 24 genera of woody plants, including shrubs, trees and vines. ... World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... A cultivar is a cultivated variety of a plant species. ...

It is a large shrub or small tree, growing 6-7 m high, but most garden cultivars do not exceed 3-4 m. The smooth bark is gray to gray-brown. The shrubs are multi-stemmed, producing secondary shoots from the base or roots. A willow shrub A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ...

The light green, oval to cordate leaves are glaucous with a mucronate apex, reaching a length of 10 cm. These simple leaves are arranged oppositely. The leaf margin is entire. They have a pinnate leaf venation. In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Apex is also a town in the U.S. state of North Carolina. ...

The four-petaled flowers are cup-shaped, usually lilac to mauve in color, but sometimes white (in some cultivars). They are arranged in a large, dense, panicled, terminal inflorescence. Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ...

The fruit is a dry, smooth brown capsule, about 1 cm long. Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ... The word capsule (from the Latin capsula, a small box), has many similar meanings in English: In botany, a capsule is a type of dry fruit as in the poppy, iris, foxglove, etc. ...

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Syringa vulgaris 'Charles Joly'