Pride of India
ಹೊಳೆ ದಾಸವಾಳजरुलபூ மருது
Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Martyn
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 15 m
- wide
- 11 m
Lythraceae
Also called Giant Crepe-myrtle, Queen's Crepe-myrtle, Queen Crepe Myrtle, Giant Crape-myrtle
Formerly Munchausia speciosa, Murtughas speciosa
When it flowers
Flowers March to October 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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China (Yunnan) to Trop. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 12 m to 18 mRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 40–60 ft; UF/IFAS 30–60 ft
- Spread
- 9.1 m to 12 mRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension medium; UF/IFAS low
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension pink, purple; UF/IFAS pink, purple; Wikipedia pink, purple, white
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
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.
Artillery plantFlowers November to February, when this does not
Banana passionfruitFlowers November to February, when this does not
Bengal clock vineFlowers November to February, when this does not
Bitter MelonFlowers November to February, when this does not
Bleeding heart vineFlowers November to February, when this does not
Blue Trumpet VineFlowers November to February, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Orgullo de la India, Reina de las flores
- Indonesian
- Bungur, Laban
- Chinese
- 大花紫薇, 洋紫薇
- French
- Lilas des Indes
- Portuguese
- Resedá-gigante
- Chinese (China)
- 大花紫薇
- Russian
- Банаба
- Japanese
- オオバナサルスベリ
- root
- banaba
- Thai
- อินทนิลน้ำ
- Afrikaans
- Koninginskubliesroos
- Czech
- pukol nádherný
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Lagerstroemia speciosa (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.