Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Vitex leucoxylon

Vitex leucoxylon
Photo: Thamizhpparithi Maari, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Pakistan to Pen. Malaysia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Vitex leucoxylon, the white wood chaste tree, is a species of deciduous woody plant with 15m height, in the family Lamiaceae. Native to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka. Bark is brown in color. Leaves compound, digitate; apex acute to obtuse; base cuneate - attenuate; margin entire. Inflorescence is corymbose cymes. Corolla is white with purple color. Fruit is purplish black with four seeded smooth drupe.

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 leucoxylon 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…