Given the question: Ligustrum japonicum - Ligustrum japonicum (Japanese privet or wax-leaf privet; Japanese: ) is a species of Ligustrum (privet) native to central and southern Japan (Honshu Shikoku Kyushu Okinawa) and Korea. It is widely cultivated in other regions and is naturalized in California and in the southeastern United States from Texas to Virginia.It is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 25 m (rarely 6 m) tall with smooth pale grey-brown bark on the stems. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Plant