Was taking photos at a local nursery and forgot to note what this plant was. If anyone can ID it for me I’d really appreciate it.
TIA
Do you happen to have a pic of the open blooms? Looks kinda like a crepe myrtle.
Another vote for crepe myrtle.
Thanks, I bet it is a crepe myrtle. There were a lot of those in the same area but I did not know they bear fruit like this.
I was thinking those were flower buds (crepe myrtle seed capsules look like this).
Ah, OK, they are not-yet-opened buds. Thanks for the clarification.
Yes, those are flower buds. They come in various colors. Pink, white, red, and light purple.
That image is captioned “Crepe Myrtle”
Now. I imagine the OP retitled it after he got answers.
Correct.
Crape, with an A…
Either spelling seems to be correct.
I wonder if it’s regional. Next year year is my fiftieth in the business and it’s always been Crape. All my wholesale catalogs. Google the botanical name and most come up Crape, a few both, rarely just Crepe. Pretty sure it started as Crepe, then became Crape for some reason.
These sprout new trees from their roots, both from runners and from where the tree trunk is cut.
About 45 years ago I had a client here on Long Island (NY) request one. She wintered in Florida and knew them from the south. At the time I had heard of them, but never saw one here.
I researched, and what I read at the time was they were marginally hardy in this zone. I also read that they may die completely above ground but if flush cut, they could regenerate. When I told my client, she wanted to give it a try. I found one, planted it, and sure enough, the following spring it didn’t leaf out. I cut it to the ground and it came back, growing to it’s previous size by the summer.
They have become extremely popular here and despite the climate noticeably warming, we can still get total dieback in a severe winter and I’ve had to do that same treatment a few times on other trees over these decades.
I have flowering crepe myrtle shrubs in my Ohio garden.
A mild winter might result in dieback of as little as the top 1/4 of the woody growth; after a winter with lows of -10 or colder dieback to the ground is typical. But they grow fast enough to give you bloom during the next growing season.