Syringa reticulata Syringa reticulata Syringa reticulata (Japanese tree lilac; ; ) is a species of Lilac, native to eastern Asia: in northern Japan (mainly Hokkaidō), northern China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan), Korea, and far southeastern Russia (Primorye). "Syringa reticulata" is a deciduous small tree growing to a height of 39' (12 m), rarely to 49' (15 m), with a trunk up to 11.8" (30 cm), rarely 15.7" (40 cm) diameter; it is the largest species of lilac, and the only one that regularly makes a small tree rather than a shrub. The leaves are
Syringa Marshall-Burnett Syringa Marshall-Burnett Syringa Marshall-Burnett CD, JP (11 May 1935 – 10 October 2014) was a Jamaican nurse, educator, and former politician with the People's National Party. A leader in the effort to create a university-based nursing education program, Marshall-Burnett would go on to serve as the head of the nursing education program at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies. She was the 8th President of the Senate of Jamaica, serving from 1995 through 2007. Syringa Marshall-Burnett was born in 1935 in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica. Marshall-Burnett had a desire to go into nursing from a young