Lagerstroemia fauriei Bill Cawthon The rich color and vigor

The rich color and vigor have made the tree an important parent of modern hybrids

Woodlanders is pleased to make the plant more widely available

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dark violet fruits after flowering

Lagerstroemia fauriei Bill Cawthon The rich color and vigorAmong crape myrtles, Lagerstroemia fauriei is the aristocrat grown as much for bark as for bloom. A small, multi stemmed, deciduous tree from Yakushima Island in southern Japan, first brought to botanical attention in the 1950s, the species reaches a graceful twenty five to thirty five feet with a rounded, vase shaped crown. The summer flowers are white, carried in airy terminal panicles that are smaller and more delicate than the heavy trusses of the