Syringa pubescens Garden Merit. According to some authorities "Syringa meyeri" is a synonym of "S. pubescens". The cultivar ‘Palibin’ has also won the AGM. Syringa pubescens Syringa pubescens is a species of flowering plant in the lilac genus of the family Oleaceae, native to Korea and China (Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan). Growing to tall and broad, it is a substantial deciduous shrub with green leaves felted white beneath, and panicles of heavily scented, white-throated lilac flowers in early summer. The specific epithet "pubescens" means "downy", referring to the texture of the leaves. Three subspecies
Gracillaria albicapitata Gracillaria albicapitata Gracillaria albicapitata is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū in Japan and the Russian Far East. The wingspan is 9.8-12.5 mm. The larvae feed on "Fraxinus lanuginosa", "Fraxinus mandshurica", "Syringa amurensis", "Syringa reticulata" and "Syringa vulgaris". They mine the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae mine directly into the middle layer of the parenchymal tissue of the leaf or leaflet. The mine made by the larvae of the first three instars is irregularly large blotchy or wide linear, and inter-parenchymal, with a few weak wrinkles on both