Dark Pink Crape Myrtle Flower Stock Photography

Crape myrtle is a widely commercialised ornamental shrub or small tree that has become naturalized and invasive in many tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Crape myrtle is the smaller cousin of Queen Crape Myrtle. It is an often multi-stemmed, deciduous tree with a wide spreading, flat topped, rounded, or even spike shaped open habit. Flowers, on different trees, are white, pink, mauve, purple or carmine with crimped petals, in panicles up to 9 cm. Capsules are ellipsoidal, 1-1.3 × 0.7-1.2 cm, 4-6-valved.