What is the morphological habit of Lagerstroemia indica?

Lagerstroemia indica is native to India, Australia and other places, and likes warm and humid climate. Flowers are brightly colored in sunny places and can grow well in semi-cloudy conditions. Lagerstroemia indica likes light and cold tolerance, fertile loam with good drainage, poor growth in clay, drought tolerance and fear of waterlogging.

Lagerstroemia indica is a deciduous shrub or small tree with twisted branches. Due to peeling, the trunk becomes very smooth. Branchlets are slightly quadrangular when they are young. Simple leaves alternate or opposite, almost sessile, elliptic or oblong. Panicle terminal, 6 ~ 20 cm long. Flowers are white, red or purple, with wrinkled lace and 6 petals. Calyx is green, with many stamens of different lengths, flower diameter of 3 ~ 4 cm, and capsule spherical. The flowering period is from July to September, and the fruit ripens in 9-65438+1October. The common varieties are Cuiwei, Yin Wei and Hongwei.

Lagerstroemia indica is beautiful in appearance, colorful and fiery, and its flowering period can last up to 100 days, so it is also called "Hundred Days Red". Lagerstroemia indica is one of the traditional famous flowers in China. Du Mu has a poem: "The new branches of autumn frost in Xiao Ying do not occupy the most spring in the garden." What happened to peaches and plums? They laugh at sunny people in the wind. ""Who spends fifty days red, crape myrtle often spends half a year. "