SvetSad
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Location: Indianapolis IN

Please help me identify this tree. With Pictures

I've been having a really hard time identifying this tree that I saw, I've seen it as a tree and a shrub, but I know its definetly same.

here's the tree itself
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z375/SvetSad/IMG_20110727_190923.jpg[/img]

it has very coarse bark, on the tree, not so much on the shrub
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z375/SvetSad/IMG_20110727_191010.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z375/SvetSad/IMG_20110727_191016.jpg[/img]

it has a compound leaf of 7 (mostly)
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z375/SvetSad/IMG_20110727_190955.jpg[/img]

and the leaves are directly across from each other
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z375/SvetSad/IMG_20110810_184830.jpg[/img]

Also from touching the leaves they left a scent on my hands which reminded me of eucalyptus

and it also has a cluster of small purple flowers
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z375/SvetSad/IMG_20110810_184804.jpg[/img]

which turn into cluster of seeds (the seeds aren't mature in this picture, cuz this picture was taken from the shrub, since I couldn't reach ones on the tree)
[img]https://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z375/SvetSad/IMG_20110810_184857.jpg[/img]


Anyways, if anyone can help me identify this tree, it would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance!
:D

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rainbowgardener
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Perhaps chaste tree, Vitex agnus-castus?



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SvetSad
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Posts: 134
Joined: Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:57 pm
Location: Indianapolis IN

That definetly looks like it! and I live in zone 8, so that's probably it! Thank you so much!



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