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Species: Vitex buchananii Baker ex Gürke Date: 2007-12-10 Location: Mpunga Community Forest Camp, Moribane Forest. Habitat: Margin of forest
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Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
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Phinahina or Beach vitexLamiaceae (Mint family)Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Kahoolawe). Naturalized only in southeastern states along the east and gulf coasts.Photo: Oahu (Cultivated)Phinahina leaves are aromatic with a sage-like spicy odor when crushed and smelling much like the simpleleaf vitex (Vitex trifolia) frequently used in Hawaiian landscaping as hedges. Other descriptions of the leaf fragrance are black pepper, basil, minty, and fir trees or "like being in a forest."EtymologyThe generic name Vitex is derived from the Latin viere, to bind or twist, in reference to the flexible creeping stems of some species.The specific epithet rotundifolia is from the Latin rotundatus, rounded, and folius, leaves, in reference to the round-shaped leaves of this species.NPH00002
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Vitex_rotundifolia
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Family: VerbenaceaeDistribution: Common in mixed forests, Limited to Peninsular India.Photographed at Velugonda hills of Eastren ghats -India.Deciduous trees, 5-8mts tall, bark greyish brown, Leaves 3-5foilate, petioles winged with auricled base; Leaflets 2.5-10x1.5cm elliptic, lanceolate, base acute, sessile, pubescent. Flowers 5-6mm across, purple, sessile, in cymes forming in 10-15cm long axillary panicles. Calyx, 5 lobed,persistant. corolla 2 lipped, 2=3 tube short, stamens 4 didynamous, exerted, ovary 2 celled, fruit a globose drupe, 4-6mm across, black. hard. Reference: Flora of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana &A.S.Rao, ENVIS.
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Auckland, Auckland Region, New Zealand
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Multi-branched small tree. Foliage and flowers are aromatic. DeciduousFamily: LamiaceaeNative to Mediterranean region.The seeds (berries) has been used to suppress male and female sexual desire. That is way it called Chaste or 'Monk's pepper'. , , " "Photographed in Mt. Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane, Australia,Chaste = , , , ,
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Species: Vitex buchananii Baker ex Gürke Date: 2007-12-10 Location: Mpunga Community Forest Camp, Moribane Forest Habitat: Margin of forest
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Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
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Species: Vitex buchananii Baker ex Gürke Date: 2007-12-10 Location: Mpunga Community Forest Camp, Moribane Forest Habitat: Margin of forest
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Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
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Madre de Dios, Peru
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Species: Vitex buchananii Baker ex Gürke Date: 2007-03-08 Location: Along road East of Casa Banana. Habitat: Understorey of sand forest.
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Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
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Madre de Dios, Peru
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Species: Vitex buchananii Baker ex Gürke Date: 2007-03-08 Location: Along road East of Casa Banana. Habitat: Understorey of sand forest.
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Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
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Phinahina or Beach vitexLamiaceaeIndigenous to the Hawaiian Islands Oahu (Cultivated)Phinahina leaves are aromatic with a sage-like spicy odor when crushed and smelling much like the simpleleaf vitex (Vitex trifolia) frequently used in Hawaiian landscaping as hedges.Other descriptions of the leaf fragrance are black pepper, basil, minty, and fir trees or "like being in a forest."NPH00001
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Vitex_rotundifolia
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