1104 Syringa of flowering plants, Syringa (philadelphus; lilac). It belongs to the Oleaceae family. The "Syringa" most common member species is the Syringa vulgaris (common lilac). The official naming citation was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 (). Due to his many discoveries, Karl Reinmuth submitted a large list of 66 newly named asteroids in the early 1930s. The list covered his discoveries with numbers between and . This list also contained a sequence of 28 asteroids, starting with 1054 Forsytia, that were all named after plants, in particular flowering plants "(also see list of
Gampaha Botanical Garden Gampaha Botanical Garden Gampaha Botanical Garden, also known as Henarathgoda Botanical Garden is situated in the suburb of Gampaha. It was established in 1876 by the British to conduct experiments on exotic economic plants such as Rubber, and explore plant wealth and development of economy in the colony. The first imported rubber tree to Sri Lanka was first planted in this garden and it was the first seedlings of Brazilian rubber tree ever planted in Asia. The garden consists of a large variety of plants and many of them are from every corner of the tropical world it is expanding