''Syringa × laciniata'', the cut-leaf lilac or cutleaf lilac, is a

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lilac ''Syringa'' is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering plant, flowering woody plants in the olive family or Oleaceae called lilacs. These lilacs are native to woodland and scrub from southeastern Europe to eastern Asia, and wid ...

of unknown, though old origin. It is thought to be a hybrid between ''

Syringa vulgaris ''Syringa vulgaris'', the lilac or common lilac, is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to the Balkan Peninsula, where it grows on rocky hills.Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe''. Collins .Med-Check ...

'' from southeastern

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and '' Syringa protolaciniata'' from western China. Although often cited as being from China,Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan . it more likely arose somewhere in southwestern Asia, where it was first scientifically described from cultivated plants in the 17th century, possibly

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,Bean, W. J. (1980). ''Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles'' 8th ed., vol. 4. John Murray . or

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, where it has been cultivated since ancient times.Flora of Pakistan
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deciduous In the fields of horticulture and Botany, the term ''deciduous'' () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, a ...

shrub growing to 2 m tall. The leaves are 2–4 cm long, variably entire or cut deeply into three to nine

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or leaflets. The

flower A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism ...

s are pale lilac, produced in loose

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s up to 7 cm long in mid spring. It is hardy to

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laciniata ''Anemonoides ranunculoides'' (syn. ''Anemone ranunculoides''), the yellow anemone, yellow wood anemone, or buttercup anemone, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant that grows in forests across Europe to western Asia, and less frequently ...

Hybrid plants Taxa named by Philip Miller

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