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Vitex agnus-castus L. is a species of tree—like shrubs of the genus Vitex of the family Clear-flowered. Vitex sacred is a tree — like shrub with a height of 4-8 m. The whole plant is grayish from thick pressed hairs. The branches are brown, tetrahedral, with a pungent aroma. The root is taproot, well branched, with a large number of adventitious roots. The leaves are large, green, opposite, palpatosyllabic on long petioles (up to 4 cm), consist of five to seven leaflets, without stipules. The leaves are narrow—lanceolate, sharp, whole-edged or sparsely toothed, matte, green on top, and grayish on the bottom from a thick short pubescence; length 5-10 cm. The flowers are numerous, pale purple, double-edged, collected in thick intermittent paniculate-spike-shaped inflorescences on the tops of branches. The calyx is five-membered, compound-leaved, has a tubular shape, three times shorter than the broom, up to 9 mm long. Four stamens, protruding high above the corolla. The color of the corolla is pale blue. The fruit is a black, dry four—nosed spherical drupe with a diameter of 3-4 mm. Fruiting is annual, abundant. Blooms from June to the end of October, bears fruit in October — November. The area is North Africa, the whole of Southern Europe, Transcaucasia, and the zone of temperate climate and subtropics of Asia: Western Asia, Central Asia. It is undemanding to soils, grows on stony, sandy, loamy soils, salt-tolerant. It grows along the banks of rivers and ditches, along gullies, on the coast, forms small thickets. It has been cultivated in gardens as an ornamental plant since 1570. In culture, it is relatively easy to propagate by seeds (spring and autumn sowing), layering, offspring and summer cuttings. Pollinated by insects, partial self-pollination is possible.
To the Tashkent Botanical Garden Vitex agnus-castus L. the seeds of the species are F.N. Rusanov tobacco was brought in 1965 for the purpose of introduction and planted in nurseries. The sprouts planted from the seeds turned out to be unub in March 1966, and the young sprouts were transplanted into the Yeuropean-Crimean-Caucasian ecisposition in 1970. Currently, there are 2 small trees of this species growing in the equisposition.
