Common name
English: Monk's Pepper
German: Mönchspfeffer
Portuguese: Árvore-da-castidade
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2625)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2528)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2137)
Order: Lamiales (178)
Family: Lamiaceae (93)(family description)
Genus: Vitex (3)
Epithet: agnus-castus L. (1)
agnus-castus => from Latin 'agnus' for lamb and 'castus' for chaste, in reference to the assumed anaphrodisiac effect
Characteristics
Climate: sub-tropical
Habit: shrub
Flower colour: blue