Is Lagerstroemia speciosa a dried fruit?

Lagerstroemia speciosa is a dried fruit. The fruit of Lagerstroemia indica is a kind of capsule, generally about 1 to 1.3 cm long, oval and shaped like soybean. Green to yellow when young, purple-black when mature or dry, and cracked back. There are many seeds in the fruit, so the fruit is inedible.

The fruit of Lagerstroemia speciosa is a bit like persimmon, but it is not soft, so it is not edible.

morphological character

Lagerstroemia speciosa, also known as Lagerstroemia speciosa, Lagerstroemia speciosa. The tree is 7-25m high, with smooth gray bark and cylindrical hairless branches. Leaves alternate or subopposite; The petiole is 8-10mm long, and the leaves are leathery oval or oval, with a length of10-25cm and a width of 6-12cm. The tip is blunt or short, the base is wide wedge-shaped to round, and both sides are hairless. Lateral veins 7- 17 are connected in an arc shape at the leaf margin. Flowers are red or purple.

The terminal spike is 5cm in diameter and 15-25cm in length, and the pedicels arranged in a pyramid shape are 1- 1.5cm in length. The dense yellow-brown felt calyx has 12 longitudinal edges or grooves, and the raw furry hairs are about 13mm long, with triangular lobes, curved and hairless appendages.