Chaste tree vitex agnus-castus

We have this tree that Lee and I had been scratching our heads over. Actually we didn’t know that the tree was alive. I had been telling Lee that I needed to clear out this dead brush by our house. Then all of a sudden the dead brush leafed out. I looked at it and told Lee to come over quick and look at the leaves. To me they looked like marijuana leaves but not quite right. So we would go around joking about our unknown marijuana tree after that.

Lee tells me to look at the tree again one day. It had bloomed out in flowers. Here is what a close up of one looks like.

A few nights ago Lee was reading one of his blogs he keeps track of. There was mention of this tree that has leaves somewhat reminiscent of marijuana. That is the story of how we found out we had a Chaste tree. We are actually quite excited about having one on our property as the tree has a lot of herbal medicinal uses. For example, it can be used as a relief for symptoms of PMS or menopause.

The tree is rather tall. Here is our view from from the second story window of our house.

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2 Responses to Chaste tree vitex agnus-castus

  1. Lynn says:

    That is a beautiful tree, now that it has flowers! And you thought you had this huge marijuana tree!! Lol!

    • robin says:

      Funny how that turned out. I was so close in almost chopping it down. It has a volunteer Hazel nut tree growing around it that I need to take out.

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