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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This ornamental flowering tree is a ...
Trees in the genus Lagerstroemia are a common sight along many of Bangkok's roads, among them Rama IV, Si Ayutthaya, Phetchaburi and Phitsanulok leading to Government House. But although they ...
Graves: Crape myrtles (Lagerstroemia) are from eastern Asia: China and Korea. There are no species of plants in the crape myrtle genus native to North America, but introduced Lagerstroemia have been ...
In the 18th century, Linnaeus, the Swedish father of modern systematics, honored countryman Magnus von Lagerström by donning the crape myrtle genus Lagerstroemia.
The botanical name Lagerstroemia doesn’t mean anything to most of us. Yet these small-scale trees with sumptuous late-summer flowers deserve to be better known and more widely grown. Crape ...
Blooms are but one of crape myrtle’s charms. As summer fades, the foliage turns fiery shades of seasonal colors, and mottled bark extends the show into winter.
Banaba is a medium-sized tree which grows up to 30 meters in height and about 40 centimeters in diameter at breast height.
The Lagerstroemia indica species of crepe myrtle are probably the most widely available in Australia and flower in a range of colours - white, red, pink and deep mauve.
If you’re looking for a great value, small-to-medium deciduous tree, Sophie Thomson recommends a crepe myrtle. She is growing a white-flowering cultivar called ‘Natchez’ (Lagerstroemia ...
ONE of the most beautiful summer flowering trees would have to be the crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica). They are looking lovely now, and we will admire the masses of large, showy blossoms borne ...
The sang le (Lagerstroemiatomentsa tomentosa) forest in Quang Thinh village in Tuong Duong district in Nghe An province is nearly 160km from Vinh City.