A race of early flowering lilacs, resembling both parents, first produced by Lemoine of Nancy, France, by crossing S. oblata with S. vulgaris azurea plena. The first clone bore double flowers but later crosses by Emile Lemoine between S. oblata var. giraldii and forms of the common lilac, S. vulgaris, produced a range of cultivars including ‘Lamartine’, ‘Buffon’ and ‘Necker’ (single-flowered), ‘Vauban’ and ‘Claude Bernard’ (double). More recently the cross has been repeated by breeders in the USA and Canada; of these newer cultivars the best known in Britain were raised by W. B. Clarke in California; see further on p. 545.
Syringa × hyacinthiflora (Lemoine) Rehd.
Genus
Other species in the genus
- Syringa: The Garden Lilacs
- Syringa × chinensis Willd.
- Syringa emodi Wall.
- Syringa josikaea Jacq. f. ex Reichenb.
- Syringa julianae Schneid.
- Syringa komarowii Schneid.
- Syringa laciniata Mill.
- Syringa meyeri Schneid.
- Syringa microphylla Diels
- Syringa oblata Lindl.
- Syringa patula (Palibin) Nakai
- Syringa pekinensis Rupr.
- Syringa × persica L.
- Syringa pinnatifolia Hemsl.
- Syringa potaninii Schneid.
- Syringa × prestoniae McKelvey
- Syringa pubescens Turcz.
- Syringa reflexa Schneid.
- Syringa reticulata (Bl.) Hara
- Syringa sweginzowii Koehne & Lingelsh.
- Syringa tomentella Bur. & Franch.
- Syringa villosa Vahl
- Syringa vulgaris L.
- Syringa wolfii Schneid.
- Syringa yunnanensis Franch.