[6] Privet is a group of shrubs and small trees of southern and eastern Asia, from the Himalayas extending into Australia.

In addition to being cultivated to create ornamental hedges and foliage, privet is also widely used in horticulture and flower arrangements.

[11] The remaining stubs of sawn-off railings can still be seen on many garden walls in the UK, often partly obscured by privet bushes.

[12] Privet leaves and bark have bitter properties that make a useful tea for improving appetite and digestion in chemotherapy patients.

Privet is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the common emerald, common marbled carpet, copper underwing, engrailed, mottled beauty, scalloped hazel, small angle shades, v-pug, privet hawk moth and willow beauty.