Curious about this unusual tree planted at the entrance to Clegg Garden? It's a fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus). This has not ever been found growing wild in Indiana, so we don't call it a native, but it is native to parts of North America as close as Kentucky and as far north as Pennsylvania.
Link to Chionanthus virginicus:
You can also find fringe trees planted on the Purdue campus, there are three fringe trees behind the Chemistry Building and a couple are on the green roof of the Undergraduate Library.
The Purdue Arboretum website will show where you can find these or any other species of tree or shrub on campus. Link to Purdue Arboretum search page:
Photos taken May 15, 2015.
Thanks for IDing.
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