Is Lagerstroemia speciosa a real fruit?

This is real fruit. In China, Lagerstroemia speciosa has a comparative feature that the four seasons are obvious. Lagerstroemia speciosa is a tree species with seasonal characteristics. In fact, Lagerstroemia speciosa also has a name called Lagerstroemia speciosa. From May to August every year, Lagerstroemia speciosa blooms for about 7 months a year. At first, it was mainly white flowers, but most of them were artificially grafted, which became a common reddish or purple color today. The flowers of Lagerstroemia speciosa are very special. There is no full shape, but the texture is very good, just like a piece of white paper, very smooth, but it is very textured when it is kneaded by hand. This texture is rare. The petals of Lagerstroemia speciosa are very thin, the edges are concave and convex, and there are yellow stamens in the middle of the flower, which bloom in the branches, just like a shy girl hiding her face and dancing in the breeze.

Lagerstroemia speciosa

In late autumn and early winter, many leaves turn red. That's because the leaves are rich in chlorophyll, and the temperature will drop slowly in autumn, so the chlorophyll production rate of Lagerstroemia speciosa is slower than the decomposition rate, and the chlorophyll content in the leaves of Lagerstroemia speciosa will decrease. However, anthocyanins in some leaves will increase rapidly, especially in cold and sunny conditions, anthocyanins will also be produced faster, so the leaves of Lagerstroemia speciosa will turn red. On the tree, the leaves are partly green and partly red. In the mottled sunshine, the red leaves of Lagerstroemia speciosa give people a sense of vicissitudes.

Lagerstroemia speciosa

When the temperature was lower, Lagerstroemia speciosa was once covered with lush trees, and all the leaves fell off because it was a deciduous plant. In winter, there are no leaves on the crape myrtle tree, and the whole crown is covered with bare branches, which look like dry and dead, but in fact, the bark of its branches is blue and wet. The whole winter is the dormant period of Lagerstroemia indica. At this time, fruits are hanging on the branches. The fruit of Lagerstroemia speciosa is a spherical to obovate rectangular capsule, which is hung on the tree in strings, like many small bells hanging in strings. Fruit 10 ripens in February of the following year. When it matures, it changes from green to taupe. When it hangs on the tree for a long time, some fruits will crack and seeds will be scattered with the wind. Friends who want to plant Lagerstroemia speciosa can collect its seeds for planting, but its seed germination rate is not very high. Generally speaking, Lagerstroemia speciosa is propagated by cutting.

Lagerstroemia speciosa