530 — Number of the plant

at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7

Classification

► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

► Subclass Asteridae

► Order Scrophulariales

► Family Oleaceae - Olive family

Synonyms

Common names

Lilac (English)

Lilae (English)

Lilas (French)

 

Сирень (Russian)

Description

Tiny very fragrant salverform flowers with a limb composed of four spreading lobes, in white and shades of purple, pink, red, blue and yellow, also bicoloured; borne in dense many-flowered terminal or axillary panicles. A deciduous shrub or small tree.