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18 days ago by skyfiery

My vitex trifolia plant has produced fruits after the flowers, and all in all, I’m increasingly falling in love with this plant – the purple flowers are really pretty; the fruits are really adorable; and most of all, I can use both the leaves and the fruits for good ends. [...]

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39 days ago by skyfiery

My vitex trifolia’s flowers have finally bloomed. For a plant which is reputed to be a superb mozzie repellent, its flowers are delicately-plumed and a graceful purple. And they’re pretty tiny! I pruned the plant the other day and gave three cuttings to a fellow GCSer. Methinks they’d root pretty we ...

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52 days ago by skyfiery

Barely a few months after rooting the cuttings, my vitex trifolia has grown really tall and lush, putting out larger leaves, and currently also putting out flowers. It’s a plant that is easy to root through stem cuttings. Of course, one can always encourage rooting by peeling off its outer bark abou ...

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78 days ago by skyfiery

Vitex trifolia I got these as cuttings from a local nursery. The mother stock was a large tree over two meters tall. Since I’d been a regular customer at the nursery and one of the bosses knows me, he gave me some cuttings. It’s supposed to be a pretty effective mosquito repellent. The leaves can be ...

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