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Accession Data:

Lagerstroemia indica L.

  • sect. Lagerstroemia

  • Common Name: Crape Myrtle
  • Family: Lythraceae J. St-Hil.

  • Country of Origin: China
  • Habitat: Open grassy places and on cliffs at low altitudes

  • Description: [syn. Lagerstroemia elegans Wallich ex Paxt.]

    Deciduous shrub to small tree, to 20 feet or more; leaves oblong-elliptic to rounded, to 2.75 inches long, glabrous or pubescent on veins; calyx tube rounded in bud, not ribbed, glabrous, petals pink, white or purple, to 1.125 inches long, the blade cordate-orbicular, crisped, stamens 36-42, ovary glabrous.
    China - USDA Zone 7
    Widely cultivated in warm temperate and subtropical regions.

  • USDA Zone: 7-9

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500476
  • Source: Logees
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 2304 - Temperate Asia - Low
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-17-2022

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: rosids
  • Order: Myrtales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Lythraceae
  • SubFamily: Lythroideae
  • Tribe: Nesaeeae
  • SubTribe: Lagerstroemiinae

Flowering Data:

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References (internal):

  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: China South-Central / Hainan / China North-Central / China Southeast / Taiwan / Cambodia / Laos / Thailand / Vietnam

References (external):

  1. Plants For A Future Website
  2. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, September 04, 2017.
  4. Lagerstroemia indica at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Monday, September 04, 2017.

data regenerated on Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:39:27 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Lythraceae

Subfamily Lythroideae
Tribe Lythreae

  • Lythrinae: Lythrum salicaria W/C

Subfamily Lythroideae
Tribe Nesaeeae

  • Lagerstroemiinae: Lagerstroemia indica
  • Lagerstroemiinae: Lawsonia inermis
  • Nesaeinae: Decodon verticillatus W/C
  • Nesaeinae: Heimia myrtifolia
  • Nesaeinae: Heimia salicifolia

Subfamily Punicoideae

  • Punica granatum Nana
W/C = Wild Collected
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= accession added within past 90 days
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