The Common Lilac is a very familiar large shrub to a small tree with a dense, round crown. The tree grows 3-7 m high and equally wide. The young twigs are grey-green and the old bark is grey-brown. Later in life, the bark flakes off slightly, in small plates. The broadly ovoid leaves are mid-green in colour. The apex is pointed and the base is broadly wedge-shaped to shallowly heart-shaped. In May, after the leaves unfurl, the flowers open in 10-20 cm panicles. The individual flowers are 0.8-1.3 cm in size and the corolla lobes face outwards at the top of the flowers. Naturally, the flowers are lilac, but there are hundreds of cultivars with a variation in flower colours from white to deep purple. There are also cultivars with double flowers. The flowers have a strong and pleasantly sweet fragrance.
Syringa vulgaris grows in any nutritious and humus-rich soil. The plant prefers neutral to calcareous soil. The tree is very suitable for use in parks and gardens. In addition, S. vulgaris is very hardy and therefore more widely applicable.
Syringa vulgaris môže dorastať do výšky 4-6 m v závislosti od podmienok stanovišťa a klímy.
Syringa vulgaris rastie priemerne rastúci a môže dorastať do výšky 4-6 m v závislosti od podmienok stanovišťa a klímy.
Správny čas na výsadbu stromu je mimo vegetačné obdobie. V strednej Európe môže byť Syringa vulgaris so zemným balom vysadený od polovice novembra do konca apríla, avšak závisí to veľmi od klimatických podmienok a druhu stromu.