Vitex fischeri Gürke

Savannah shrub or small to fairly large tree (1.8–)4.5–9 or sometimes to 15(–18) m. tall with rounded crown; bark grey to dark brown, shallowly striate and fissured, slash white to light brown with white sapwood; young branches and petioles densely clothed with velvety orange-brown hairs or yellow-tomentose.. Leaves scented, 5-foliolate; leaflets oblong, ovate-elliptic to elliptic or slightly obovate-elliptic, 5–19 cm. long, 3–10 cm. wide, shortly to long-acuminate at the apex, the tip acute, cuneate to rounded at the base, entire, somewhat scabrid-puberulous above but later ± glabrous, velvety woolly tomentose beneath and with sparse to dense glands, the surface usually totally obscured but sometimes indumentum much sparser with glands and venation evident; lateral nerves rather numerous, up to ± 15 pairs; petioles 6.5–16.5 cm. long; petiolules 1–2(3–8) cm. long.. Cymes axillary, extensive, many-flowered, up to 11(–15) cm. wide; peduncle 6–14 cm. long; pedicels 0–1 mm. long or that of central flower of cyme up to 12 mm.; all axes woolly-tomentose; bracts and bracteoles narrow, 0.3–2.2 cm. long, dark and ± glabrous inside, velvety outside.. Calyx often tinged red, 3–4 mm. long, truncate or shallowly toothed, the teeth up to 1 mm. long.. Corolla white with blue or mauve upper lip and lower cream or both blue; throat yellow; tube ± 3 mm. long, the lip 3.5 mm. long and lower lobes 2.5 mm. long and wide.. Fruit black or purple-green to black with green spots, oblong-globose, 1–1.3 mm. long, 0.8–1 cm. wide, edible; calycine cup ± 1 cm. wide.

Forest edges, young closed forest and gaps, also savannah woodland and thicket, often on rocky sites, termite mounds, preferring sandy loam soils; at elevations from sea level to 1,500 metres.

The fruit are eaten raw.

Plants are grown from seed. Seed from partly ripe fruit are best.