Vitex trifolia "Variegata" Fred Heutte Use 'Leucocarpa' where the pale

Use 'Leucocarpa' where the pale berries and airy foliage can be read at close range: a shaded courtyard

In form and effect

and variegated forms

so a shrub in full bloom reads as a haze of pale lavender rather than a mass of solid color

the flesh is tart

Vitex trifolia "Variegata" Fred Heutte Use 'Leucocarpa' where the paleA brightly variegated cousin of the chaste tree, grown for foliage as much as flower. Vitex trifolia, sometimes called the three leaf chaste tree or Arabian lilac, is a warm climate shrub of the mint family, native along tropical and subtropical coasts from eastern Africa through southern Asia to Australia and the Pacific. The species name trifolia points to the leaves, usually held in threes, and the selection 'Variegata' edges each gray green