Syringa vulgaris four-lobed apex 5–8 mm across, usually lilac to mauve, occasionally white. They are arranged in dense, terminal panicles long. The fruit is a dry, smooth, brown capsule, 1–2 cm long, splitting in two to release the two-winged seeds. "Syringa vulgaris" was first formally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 and the description was published in "Species Plantarum". The specific epithet ("vulgaris") is a Latin word meaning "common" or "usual". Lilacs—both "S. vulgaris" and "S." × "persica" the finer, smaller "Persian lilac", now considered a natural hybrid—were introduced into northern European gardens at the end of the 16th century, from Ottoman
Gracillaria arsenievi Gracillaria arsenievi Gracillaria arsenievi is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and the Russian Far East. The wingspan is 10-13.2 mm. The larvae feed on "Fraxinus americana", "Fraxinus chinensis", "Fraxinus mandshurica", "Fraxinus pennsylvanica", "Syringa amurensis", "Syringa reticulata" and "Syringa vulgaris". They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as upper epidermal and tortuous-linear, and later becomes a blister-like blotch. The leaf roll made by the larva of the late instars is conical or trigonal, always rolled up from the tip of the leaf or leaflet on the