Seasonal Interest and Photographs

Vitex negundo
 
Chaste Tree/Vitex

Flowers: Small, lilac or violet flowers on new growth from June to September. Flowers are the smallest of the
commonly grown Vitex species.

Foliage: Small, palmately compound leaves. Often mistaken for Cannabis leaves.

Fruit: insignificant

Trunk, Branching, Twigs:

 

Location: In the Horticulture Display Garden near the Rosen Alternative Pest Control building, this is the cultivar
Heterophylla.

Photographs: Click on an image to see a larger version:

stem and leaves, var. cannabifolia leaves, var. cannabifolia leaves, var. heterophylla flowers, stem and arrangement, var. heterophylla form

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