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| − | '''''Ligustrum robustum''''' grows as a shrub or small tree up to {{convert|10|m|-1|abbr=on}} tall though old specimens of more than a hundred years have been observed with a height of {{convert|15|m|-1|abbr=on}}. The fruit of the shrub is an ellipsoid berry, bluish-purple when fully ripe, {{convert|7|-|10|mm|abbr=on}} × {{convert|4|-|5|mm|abbr=on}}.<ref>[http://www.plantwise.org/KnowledgeBank/Datasheet.aspx?dsid=30761%20 Plantwise Knowledge Bank datasheet]</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/446792#page/315/mode/1up Carl Ludwig von Blume. 1850. Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum sive stirpium Exoticarum, Novarum vel Minus Cognitarum ex Vivis aut Siccis Brevis Expositio et Descriptio. Leiden 1: 313, ''Ligustrum robustum'']</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/787378#page/106/mode/1up Roxburgh, William. 1820. Flora Indica; or descriptions of Indian Plants 1: 101–102, ''Phillyrea robusta'' ]</ref>
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