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Smooth chastetree

Vitex glabrata

Also called Smooth chaste-tree, Black Plum

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Trop. Asia to W. Pacific
Climate
wet tropical

About

Vitex glabrata, commonly known as smooth chastetree, bush currant, black plum, black fruit, and black grape, is a species medium-sized deciduous tree in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to Australia (Northern Territory, Western Australia, and Queensland), Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India (including both the mainland and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Indonesia (most regions of Indonesia except Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia, Marianas, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea (including Bismarck Archipelago), Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Other Vitex plants

Vitex acunae · Chaste-tree · Vitex ajugiflora · Vitex altissima · Vitex amaniensis · New Guinea Teak · Cuajado fiddlewood · Guayacán · Higuerillo · Black Plum · Walking lady · Vitex gigantea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vitex glabrata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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