Chionanthus virginicus Open House in part shade or

in part shade or

The pawpaws are the temperate outliers of the Annonaceae

native to China

toothed leaves and a habit of doing things backward

into a broad pyramid that can reach forty to seventy feet in cultivation and far more in the wild

Chionanthus virginicus Open House in part shade orThe native fringetree is one of the great small trees of the southern spring. Chionanthus virginicus, a deciduous large shrub or small tree, often multi stemmed, hangs the whole canopy with fleecy, drooping panicles of narrow white petals in spring, soft as torn paper and lightly fragrant, a look that earned the old country names old man's beard and grancy graybeard. On female plants the flowers give way to clusters of raisin sized, deep blue purple