| Scientific Name: | Lagerstroemia fauriei (incl. hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | Japanese crape myrtle |
| Family Name: | Lythraceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Elliptic, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Thyrse, White, Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Black, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves simple, usually opposite, ovate to elliptic, up to 15cm long; flowers white, on 5-10cm long panicles; capsules succulent, green and then ripening and drying to dark brown to black. Winter ID: most with multi-stemmed trunk with attractive peeling cinnamon bark; fallen dark capsules; twigs with decurrent ridges. | |