| Common Name: Fringe Tree or Grancy Graybeard |
| Family: Oleaceae |
| Zone: 4-8 |
| Average Size: 20’H x 12’W |
Identification:
- Opposite arrangement of leaves and stems
- Simple leaf, oval to elliptic with purple petiole
- Gray stems with prominent, warty lenticels
- Loose panicles of flowers with fringe-like flower petals in spring
- White flowers with 4 petal-like bracts in spring
- Blue fruit, 1/4 inch in fall on female trees
- Deciduous with yellow fall color
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| Notes: Native to the Eastern United States, Fringe Tree is common in upland pine forest in the region. Grow shrub-like when young with multiple trunks. A dioecious species, male flowers are showier because of longer fringe-like petals. Extremely showy in bloom and worthy of more use in the landscape, but difficulties in propagation limit its nursery availability. |
| Campus Location: School of Renewable Natural Resources, south lawn |
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