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Lagerstroemia speciosa Pers.

Pride of india (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Lythraceae > Lagerstroemia

Characteristics

A tree. It grows 20 m tall. The trunk is short and twisted. The crown is dense and rounded. The brown is cream grey and peels in thin flakes. The leaves are 8-18 cm long by 5-8 cm wide. Leaves are smooth. Old leaves become orange-red. The flowers are 5-8 cm across. They are bright pink to purple. They are in clusters 30-40 cm long near the crown. The fruit are 2-3 cm wide.
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Tree 7–18 m. tall with much-branched rounded crown.. Leaves subopposite, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, up to 30 cm. long, 9 cm. wide.. Flowers large, mauve or pink, 5–7.5 cm. in diameter, in large elongate terminal panicles.. Calyx conspicuously ribbed, rusty or grey-velvety.. Petals 3.2–3.5 × 2.1–2.5 cm., with claw 5–6 mm. long.. Capsule 1.7–2 cm. long.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 11.0 - 16.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

In open vegetation types, often coastal areas, in regrowth or in swamps, also planted a lot at elevations up to 100 metres. Usually on alluvial sites and along rivers with sandy to clay soils.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in forests and along roadsides in Vietnam. In Rockhampton Botanical gardens.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

The young leaves are used as a raw vegetable. Caution: Pregnant women should probably not use the leaves.
Uses dye environmental use food material medicinal oil poison social use timber wood
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Antiviral agents (aerial part), Heart diseases (aerial part), Abdominal pain (bark), Antipyretics (bark), Cardiotonic agents (bark), Cathartics (bark), Diarrhea (bark), Dysentery (bark), Fever (bark), Hypotension (bark), General tonic for rejuvenation (bark), Wounds and injuries (bark), Diabetes mellitus (fruit), Mouth diseases (fruit), Stomatitis, aphthous (fruit), Antifungal agents (leaf), Anti-inflammatory agents (leaf), Antioxidants (leaf), Cathartics (leaf), Diabetes mellitus (leaf), Diuretics (leaf), HIV infections (leaf), Hypoglycemic agents (leaf), Kidney diseases (leaf), Deobstruent (leaf), Antipyretics (root), Astringents (root), Cathartics (root), Fever (root), Jaundice (root), General tonic for rejuvenation (root), Hemagglutination (seed), Narcotics (seed), HIV infections (stem), Abdomen (unspecified), Aphthaee (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Deobstruent (unspecified), Diabetes (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Malaria (unspecified), Narcotic (unspecified), Puerperium (unspecified), Stimulant (unspecified), Anodyne (unspecified), Cracked feet (unspecified), Cyanogenetic (unspecified), Hematuria (unspecified), Jaundice (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Abdominal pain (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 15 - 20
Germination temperacture (C°) 21
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 18 - 35
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Lagerstroemia speciosa leaf picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)
Lagerstroemia speciosa leaf picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)
Lagerstroemia speciosa leaf picture by Sawor Mon (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Lagerstroemia speciosa flower picture by Iman Mohamad Topik (cc-by-sa)
Lagerstroemia speciosa flower picture by narendra chaudhari (cc-by-sa)
Lagerstroemia speciosa flower picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Lagerstroemia speciosa fruit picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)
Lagerstroemia speciosa fruit picture by Peter Lithner (cc-by-sa)
Lagerstroemia speciosa fruit picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Lagerstroemia speciosa world distribution map, present in Australia and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:553618-1
WFO ID wfo-0000366693
COL ID 3RX2Y
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 445739
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Lagerstroemia major Lagerstroemia augusta Munchausia speciosa Munchausia ovata Murtughas hirsuta Sotularia malabarica Lagerstroemia punctata Lagerstroemia plicifolia Lagerstroemia munchausia Lagerstroemia reginae Lagerstroemia flos-reginae Murtughas punctata Murtughas speciosa Lagerstroemia hirsuta Adambea glabra Adambea hirsuta Lagerstroemia speciosa

Lower taxons

Lagerstroemia speciosa subsp. intermedia
WorldFloraDB 2024