Chionanthus virginicus L. (fringe tree), flowers and leaves
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Born digital
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2005 – 2012
Chionanthus virginicus L. (fringe tree), flowers are dioecious or polygamo-dioecious white slightly fragrant males more so than females due to longer petals, 4-petals 2 stamens each petal is 0.75-1.25" long by 0.06-0.08" wide borne in 6-8" (up to 10") long and wide fine fleecy soft-textured panicles in May to early June just as leaves are expanding to point of complete development on previous season's wood, each flower stalk of the panicle bears 3 flowers and emerges from the axil of a 1-1.5" long leaf-like bract which persists until fruit ripening, these are native plants, leaves are opposite or subopposite simple narrow-elliptic to oblong or obovate-oblong 3-8" long by one half as wide acute or acuminate cuneate entire medium to dark green and often lustrous above paler and pubescent on veins beneath usually becoming glabrate, petiole is 1/2-1" long and downy
