Wild crapemyrtle
വെസ്റ്റ്ഇന്ത്യൻ ചെറി
Malpighia glabra L.
- light
- —
- water
- Little
- tall
- 3.4 m
- wide
- 3.8 m
Malpighiaceae
Formerly Malpighia biflora, Malpighia myrtifolia, Malpighia neumanniana, Malpighia peruviana, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Texas to Venezuela and Ecuador, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 3.0 m to 3.7 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 m to 4.6 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
Not known yet: light, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Chinese
- 光叶金虎尾, 西印度樱桃, 黃褥花
- Malayalam
- വെസ്റ്റ്ഇന്ത്യൻ ചെറി, വെസ്റ്റ് ഇന്ത്യൻ ചെറി
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS Extension, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Malpighia glabra (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.