Summer is the time hazy purplish clouds of eye-popping blooms blanket the chaste tree, Redlands’ the tree of the month for August. Also commonly known as chaste berry, monk’s pepper or Indian spice, ...
Vitex chaste trees are beautiful and virtually carefree summer-blooming shrubby trees that attract a wide variety of pollinators. It’s a fast grower that produces dense, upright panicles of flowers, ...
The lovely lavender flowers of the chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus), a shrub native to the Mediterranean, produce small, dark fruits (berries) resembling peppercorns. Ancient European herbalists ...