Lilac

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Perennial

Native distribution

Korea and Manchuria

Location

Cornell Class of 1923 Flowering Tree Collection

Source of plant

Forestfarm Nursery

Description

An extremely hardy species medium-sized to large shrub with pale, ash-gray branches and elliptic-lanceolate, taper-pointed, 8-12 cm long leaves. Flowers fragrant, pale violet-purple, borne in wide, loose panicles in June.

USDA Hardiness Zone

4