Lagerostroemia Hardwood Or Softwood

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Lagerostroemia hardwood or softwood. Allow pods to dry on plant. Bag seedheads to capture ripening seed. Softwood cuttings are generally taken in spring or early summer when plants are producing soft succulent new growth. One month to propagate.

Hardwood cuttings are best taken in late fall. A hybrid of the lagerstroemia indica produced my the nation arboretum in washington d c. Lagerstroemia species are deciduous shrubs or trees with geographic origins in china japan and other parts of southeast asia. Unknown tell us.

Unknown tell us. Unknown tell us. Leaves are yellow orange and red in fall. This plant is said to grow.

Plant does not set seed flowers are sterile or plants will not come true from seed. The common garden plant while not large enough to produce lumber can produce some very nice hard and stiff wood for canes walking sticks and small turnings. Softwood cuttings take approx. Unknown tell us.

From hardwood heel cuttings. Unknown tell us. Softwood and semi hardwood cuttings root easily when taken in. From hardwood heel cuttings.

Pots with cuttings can be. Unknown tell us. Unknown tell us. From hardwood heel cuttings.

This is related to lagerstroemia indica also known as the common crepe myrtle. Cuttings should be eight inches long and a half inch in diameter. Softwood and semi hardwood cuttings are from the current season s growth and hardwood cuttings seldom taken in florida are from the previous season s growth. Softwood semi hardwood hardwood or root cuttings can propagate crape myrtle.

Grows best in zones 7a 10 but is hardy in zone 6b. Has pink flowers with a similiar appearence of the l. Classifying wood as either a hardwood or softwood comes down to its physical structure and makeup and so it is overly simple to think of hardwoods as being hard and durable compared to soft and workable softwoods. Break open to collect seeds.

Blooms until frost in the southern u s. Unknown tell us. It is a bonsai or tree crape reaching over 20 feet. This happens to be generally true but there are exceptions such as in the cases of wood from yew trees a softwood that is relatively hard and wood from balsa trees a.

Unknown tell us. Sow indoors before last frost. Unknown tell us. Unknown tell us.

Allow pods to dry on plant. Break open to collect seeds.