Crape myrtle
・Crape myrtle
The tree is from the southern part of China representing summer, leaves
fall in winter. It has flowers on the branch from the summer to the autumn.
The color of flowers are white, pink, rouge, crimson and violet. The
petals are six pieces.
After a flower bloomed, it produces a sphere and elliptic fruit, and it
split open when it become ripe, and a seed is scattered. A seed has the
wing like the thin feather.
From the place hanging it partially where the bark came off, " monkey
slips and falls → monkey sliding" is the origin of the name. It
has the kanji called "hundred days crimson", but this is because
a flowering period is long.
