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Ligustrum sinense

Chinese Privet

Introduced to HawaiʻiIUCN: least concern

Photo: (c) Kai Yan, Joseph Wong, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1923

First collected

2000

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

2 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1920s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by Peng, K. (C.C.C. Campus). The Museum last collected it in 2000; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as June 14, 2026.

From the collection

Ligustrum sinense, 562494Ligustrum sinense, 168172Ligustrum sinense, 168173Ligustrum sinense, 168171Ligustrum sinense, 652491Ligustrum sinense, 658820Ligustrum sinense, 596355Ligustrum sinense, 61057Ligustrum sinense, 445290Ligustrum sinense, 605525Ligustrum sinense, 664559Ligustrum sinense, 572349

Alive today

5 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.