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Vitex parviflora
Also called Smallflower chaste-tree
Smallflower chastetree (molave) is a wet-tropical tree native to Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, valued for its hard timber. It is a large tree rather than a houseplant, and it needs a warm, humid, frost-free climate to grow well.
Vitex parviflora is a species of plant in the family Lamiaceae, also known as smallflower chastetree or the molave tree. The name "molave" is from Spanish, derived from mulawin, the Tagalog word for the tree. It is also known as tugas in Visayan languages. It is known as sagat in ilokano. It yields one of two woods from the same genus called molave wood, the other being Vitex cofassus.
It is a native species in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. It can also be found in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Oceania, and Asia. It was reported to be an invasive species in Guam and Hawaii after it became naturalized in O'ahu and escaped from cultivation in Guam. In Cuba, it is also considered as a possibly invasive species due to naturalization.
Chaste-tree · Black Plum · Meru oak · Vitex lucens · Chinese chastetree · Malayan Teak · Roundleaf chastetree · Simpleleaf chastetree
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vitex parviflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
