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Lagerstroemia duperreana

Lagerstroemia duperreana
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0

Lagerstroemia duperreana is a tree in the crape myrtle genus, native to tropical Southeast Asia from India and Bangladesh through Indochina. It is grown mainly as a warm-climate garden or street tree, and it needs a frost-free climate with a good rainy season.

Family
Lythraceae (Loosestrife family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates seasonal rain well.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile loam; tolerates a range of soil types if drainage is good.
Temperature
20-35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. India, Bangladesh to Indo-China
Climate
wet tropical

About

Lagerstroemia duperreana is a species of flowering plant in the family Lythraceae. It is found in Indochina, including in southern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia.

Other Lagerstroemia plants

Lagerstroemia floribunda var. floribunda · Sralao · Lagerstroemia × egolfii · Lagerstroemia engleriana · Thai Crape Myrtle · Crapemyrtle · Lagerstroemia speciosa subsp. intermedia · Lagerstroemia langkawiensis · Lagerstroemia loudonii · Lagerstroemia macrocarpa · Lagerstroemia micrantha · Lagerstroemia microcarpa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lagerstroemia duperreana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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