Crape myrtle
দেশি ফুরুস
Lagerstroemia indica L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 6.0 m
Lythraceae
Also called Crape-myrtle, Crepe myrtle, Common Crape Myrtle, Pride-Of-India, Ladies' streamer
Formerly Lagerstroemia chinensis, Lagerstroemia elegans, Lagerstroemia minor, Lagerstroemia pulchra, and 2 more
When it flowers
Flowers November to February in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Himalaya to S. China and Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 4–8 m; NC State Extension 6–30 ft
- Spread
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 4–8 m; NC State Extension 6–30 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, pink, purpleRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS pink, purple, white; NC State Extension pink, purple, red, white
- Coldest it survives
- -14.1 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -5 °C; NC State Extension -23.3 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
African irisFlowers March to October, when this does not
Bird of paradiseFlowers March to October, when this does not
Cape leadwortFlowers March to October, when this does not
Creeping WoodsorrelFlowers March to October, when this does not
Heart-leaf ice plantFlowers March to October, when this does not
LantanaFlowers March to October, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- árbol de Júpiter, Crespón, Almira
- Chinese
- 紫薇, 銀薇, 滿堂紅
- Portuguese
- Extremosa, Pipoca, Resedá
- Japanese
- サルスベリ, ヒャクジツコウ, 猿滑
- French
- Lilas des Indes, Folie de jeune fille
- Korean
- 배롱나무
- Finnish
- kiinankutrio
- Czech
- pukol okrouhlolistý
- Indonesian
- Bungur Kecil
- Chinese (China)
- 紫薇, 痒痒花, 痒痒树
- Estonian
- hiina lagerströömia
- Italian
- mirto crespo
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Lagerstroemia indica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.