Chionanthus virginicus fringe tree

The native fringe tree has leaves and flower panicles up to twice the size of those of the Chinese tree. Campus’s sole specimen is a sapling planted in 2023 in the Thomas Church Garden, the courtyard just north of Building 320. This was the species in Church’s original 1967 plan, though its more popular Asian cousin, C. retusus, has been used for the past few decades instead. A location on Quarry Road near Hoover Pavilion was landscaped away.