Type of Flowers
Lagerstroemia: Lagerstroemia unremarkably known every bit crape myrtle or crepe myrtle, is a genus of around fifty species of deciduous together with evergreen trees together with shrubs native to the Indian Subcontinent, southeast Asia, northern Commonwealth of Australia together with parts of Oceania, cultivated inwards warmer climates around the world. It is a fellow member of the Lythraceae, which is too known every bit the loosestrife family. The genus is named afterward the Swedish merchant Magnus von Lagerström, who supplied Carolus Linnaeus alongside plants he collected. These flowering trees are beautifully colored together with are oft planted both privately together with commercially. Popular varieties used inwards modern landscaping include the vivid cerise Dynamite Crape Myrtle, the deep pinkish Pink Velour Crape together with the regal Twilight Crape Myrtle, which too has a bark that changes colors.
Crape myrtles are chiefly known for their colorful together with long-lasting flowers which spill out inwards summertime months. Most species of Lagerstroemia convey sinewy, fluted stems together with branches alongside a mottled appearance that arises from having bark that sheds throughout the year. The leaves are opposite, simple, alongside entire margins, together with vary from 5–20 cm (2–8 in). While all species are woody inwards nature, they tin sack attain inwards acme from over 100 feet to nether 1 foot; most, even thence are pocket-size to medium multiple-trunked trees together with shrubs. The leaves of temperate species render spill color.
Flowers are borne inwards summertime together with spill inwards panicles of crinkled flowers alongside a crepe-like texture. Colors vary from deep regal to cerise to white, alongside virtually every shade inwards between. Although no blue-flowered varieties exist, it is toward the bluish halt of the spectrum that the flowers trend, alongside no sight of orangish or yellowish except inwards stamens together with pistils. The fruit is a capsule, greenish together with succulent at first, together with then ripening to nighttime dark-brown or dark dryness. It splits along half dozen or 7 lines, producing teeth much similar those of the calyx, together with releases numerous, small, winged seeds.
The mutual crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) from China together with Korea, was introduced circa 1790 to Charleston, South Carolina, inwards the U.S. past times the French botanist André Michaux. In the wild, the species is most oft constitute every bit a multistemmed large shrub, but 2 hundred years of tillage has resulted inwards a huge set out of cultivars of widely varying characteristics. Today, crape myrtles varieties tin sack fill upwards every landscape need, from tidy street trees to dense barrier hedges all the agency downwards to fast-growing dwarf types of less than 2 feet, which tin sack larn from seed to bloom inwards a flavor (allowing gardeners inwards places where the flora is non winter-hardy to silent relish the intense colors of the frilly flowers). In Europe, crape myrtle is mutual inwards the due south of France, the Iberian Peninsula together with all of Italy; inwards the U.S. it tin sack live seen anywhere due south of USDA Zone 6, doing best together with avoiding fungal diseases inwards mild climates that are non overly humid, such every bit inland California together with Texas.
