| Coastal Vitex
Vitex trifolia var. trifolia |
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| Family: VERBENACEAE | Distribution: Queensland to Ballina |
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Description: Shrub or small tree to 6.5 m. Leaves green, lower surface grey to whitish, opposite, compound, 1-5 foliolate. Leaflets oblong-elliptic or ovate, 3-8 cm long, 2-4 cm wide. Flowers blue to purplish occurring mostly in spring. Fruit a drupe, globose, 4-6 mm diam. red turning blue-black. Usually found growing on hind dunes and around coastal creeks.
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Propagation: Propagate with freshly collected
seed from ripe fruit. Plant immediately in clean seedling mix of 2/3 washed river sand and 1/3 peat moss or organic matter. Prick out seedlings into tubes at
cotyledon stage if possible. Plants can be grown from tip and semi-hardwood
cuttings under mist.
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Regeneration use: Climax species, usually used in assisted rehabilitation projects, i.e. ecosystem has remnant value and is not fully degraded. Can be used as pioneer species.
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CPR Coastal Plant Regeneration |
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