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Lagerstroemia tomentosa

Lagerstroemia tomentosa

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Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitDeciduous Tree
Growth—

A plant of the moist tropics. It grows best in areas where annual daytime temperatures are within the range 26 - 36°c, but can tolerate 10 - 43°c[1]. The plant cannot tolerate frosts. It prefers a mean annual rainfall in the range 2,000 - 3,000mm, but tolerates 1,000 - 4,500mm[1]. Prefers a sunny position, tolerating light shade[1]. Grows well in moist, fertile, well-drained soils of medium texture, tolerating light soils[1]. Prefers a pH in the range 5 - 6.5, tolerating 4 - 7.5[1]. Seedlings often have thin stems and are more like climbing plants for their first two or three years, but the stem then thickens and they develop the erect habit of a tree[2].

Propagation

Seed - sow in a nursery seedbed with some shade. Seedlings are somewhat slow growing in their first year, but then speed up and can be ready to plant out when about 18 months old and 45 - 90cm tall[2]. Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Lagerstroemia+tomentosa>

Pollinators

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References

  1. [1]Ecocrop — http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home ↩︎Basic information on a wide range of useful plants, plus details of environmental needs where available.
  2. [2]Brazilian Trees. Volume 3. — Lorenzi. H. · Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. · 2009 · ISBN 85-86714-34-4 ↩︎Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best.
  3. [3]A Manual of Indian Timbers. — Gamble. J. S. · Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh · 1972 · ISBN - ↩︎First written in the 19th century, but still a classic, giving a lot of information on the uses and habitats of Indian trees. Not for the casual reader.
  4. [4]Flowers of India — http://www.flowersofindia.net/ ↩︎A wed site of native Indian plants, plus cultivated and naturalized species. It has good quality photos and terse details on more than 3,000 species and cultivars.
  5. [5]Flora of China — Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. · 1994 · http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ ↩︎An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available.
  6. [6]A Manual of the Timbers of the World — Howard A.L. · MacMillan and Co.; London. · 1934 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎An excellent and comprehensive book on timbers. Rather dated, but still a main source of information for many of the less known woods. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  7. [7]Tropical Timbers of the World. Ag. Handbook No. 607. — Chudnoff. Martin. · USDA Forest Service. Wisconsin. · 1984 ↩︎Terse details on the properties of the wood of almost 400 species of trees from the Tropics.