NOLA.com: Those purple flowers putting on a stunning show right now are the easy-to-care-for vitex If you've admired the stunning display of purple flowers in the landscape in recent weeks, you've witnessed one of Louisiana's finest blooming small trees or large shrubs: the vitex, also known as the ... Those purple flowers putting on a stunning show right now are the easy-to-care-for vitex Vitex agnus-castus, or "chaste tree," is a shrub native to the Mediterranean and Asia. The fruit has been historically used for reducing sexual desire.

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Vitex agnus-castus fruit and seed contain... Deciduous large shrub or small tree with distinctive palmately compound leaves. Profuse spikes of lavender flowers, blooming heavily in the early summer, and then sporadically throughout the summer and fall. Vitex is heat, drought and pest tolerant.

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Chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus) blooms in the summer with cooling blue or white flowers. It is a fast-growing single-trunk tree or multi-stem shrub. Common Names: chasteberry, chaste tree, gattilier, monk's pepper, vitex. Latin Names: Vitex agnus-castus. The chasteberry plant, also called chaste tree or shrub, is native to the Mediterranean and Central Asia regions.

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Extracts of chasteberry may be prepared from the herb’s leaves, stems, flowers, and seeds. What is vitex? Vitex is technically the name for the largest genus in the family Verbenaceae, which comprises 250 species distributed all over the world. The vitex species are deciduous shrubs.