White Fringe Tree, Chionanthus Virginicus, 10 Seeds White Fringe Tree is a slow growing large deciduous shrub or small tree with a spreading, rounded habit that typically grows 12 to 25 feet tall (to 35 feet in the wild) with opposite branches, a short trunk and a narrow, oblong crown. It most often occurs in rich, moist woods and hillsides, moist stream banks, limestone glade margins and rocky bluffs and ledges. The bark is dark gray-brown in color, becoming somewhat furrowed with reddish scales. The leaves are opposite or sometimes partially opposite, simple, ovate to elliptical, 4 to 8 inches long, pinnately-veined in shape with an entire margin, somewhat thickened, green above and paler below turning yellow in autumn. Flowers are Dioecious or polygamo-Dioecious; very showy, 1 inch long with a 4-lobed, white corolla, very fragrant, hanging from airy, terminal, drooping clusters 4 to 8 inches long of fringe-like (resemble a long white beard); appearing in late spring. Male flowers are showier than female flowers. Fertilized female flowers give way to clusters of 3/4 inch olive-like fruits which ripen to a dark, bluish black in late summer and are a food source for birds and wildlife. Other Names: White Fringe Tree, Grancy Grey Beard, Old Man's Beard Growth Rate: Slow #Zone: 4 to 9 #QTY: 10 SEEDS