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Southern evergreen magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora

Swamp titi
Cyrilla racemiflora and C. parviflora

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plant database at
http://plants.usda.gov/

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Chaste tree
Vitex agnus-castus
A beautiful small, often multi-trunked tree or large shrub with a broad crown, that thrives in heat.Vitex is sometimes mistaken for butterfly bush (Buddleia). Not only is the tree strikingly beautiful when in full bloom, but it is fragrant as well

Blooms:Striking and fragrant flower spikes on new wood in early summer, and sporadically until early fall. "Rosea" has pink flower spikes, "Alba" has white. Following the flowers, fleshy but inconspicuous fruit forms that contains four seeds. These are sometimes used as seasoning, like pepper.
Leaves: Compound leaves with 5 to 7 finger-like leaflets. Grey-green above and greyish and somewhat fuzzy below, aromatic, "Latifolia" has larger foliage.
Soil:Easy to grow in moderate to moist,fertile, well drained soil. Not hard to grow in almost any soil that has good drainage! Even tolerant of salt drift.
Light: Sun to shade.
Height:Plant grows 10'-20'
Uses:As a specimen flowering tree. As part of a mixed border if kept pruned to shrub size. Prune when dormant.

Bigleaf or French hydrangea
Hydrangea macrophylla