These are on my list of my favourite plants. Its a Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) and they can be either a small tree or large shrub, depending on how you train them. I prefer them to grow as trees, so that means training them to grow from a single trunk and cutting off the suckers that may form at the base. The bark on them is really pretty to, but I struggle to describe it and I dont have a photo of it. So youre just going to have to google it Im afraid. The flowers are most commonly found in pink, but I have also seen them in white, red and purple. The thing that amuses me the most about this plant is in the name of them. The botanical name includes the word 'indica' which translates 'from India', however this plant is native to China, Japan and Korea. When it was discovered/named, the botanists werent very good with geography and generally called that region India. So now the name is stuck.
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