Native FringetreeAlso known as a "Grancy Grey Beard", this native tree is grown for its awesome, fragrant white flower spikes in April and May and its neat and compact growth habit as a smaller growing specimen tree. The NATIVE Fringe Tree differs from the ASIAN Fringe Tree in these ways It has longer flowers which are a bit more fragrant, its leaves are dull green rather than glossy green and it is much slower growing than the Asian. Leaves turn a soft yellow in fall