Crapes Anyone?
by Kathy White
Title
Crapes Anyone?
Artist
Kathy White
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Photograph - Photography--greeting Cards Or Notes Are Cheaper By The Dozen!
Description
I love Crape Myrtles! They are another one of my favorite flowering trees. I think they bloom during the hot part of the summer just so that we will not forget that God still has such beauty! When the grass starts to die from our hot Arklatex heat, there stands the crape myrtle looking awesome! "Crapes, Anyone?" was shot in Louisiana of a beautiful pink crape myrtle bloom.
Lagerstroemia, commonly known as crape myrtle or crepe myrtle, is a genus of around 50 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs native to the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, northern Australia and parts of Oceania, cultivated in warmer climates around the world. It is a member of the family Lythraceae, which are also known as the loosestrife family. The genus is named after the Swedish merchant Magnus von Lagerstr�m, who supplied Carl Linnaeus with plants he collected. These flowering trees are beautifully colored and are often planted both privately and commercially as ornamentals.
Crape myrtles are chiefly known for their colorful and long-lasting flowers which occur in summer months. Most species of Lagerstroemia have sinewy, fluted stems and branches with a mottled appearance that arises from having bark that sheds throughout the year. The leaves are opposite and simple, with entire margins, and vary from 5�20 cm (2�8 in). While all species are woody in nature, they can range in height from over 100 feet to under one foot; most, however, are small to medium multiple-trunked trees and shrubs. The leaves of temperate species provide autumn color.
Flowers are borne in summer and autumn in panicles of crinkled flowers with a crepe-like texture. Colors vary from deep purple to red to white, with almost every shade in between. Although no blue-flowered varieties exist, the flowers trend toward the blue end of the spectrum with no orange or yellow except in stamens and pistils. The fruit is a capsule, green and succulent at first, then ripening to dark brown or black dryness. It splits along six or seven lines, producing teeth much like those of the calyx, and releases numerous, small, winged seeds.
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July 31st, 2015
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Kathy White
A big thanks to Randy Rosenberger for your feature of Crapes Anyone? on your feature wall of the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery! We appreciate you ....always!
Kathy White
Thank you so much to the 1 A Day Waiting Room Art Group and Luther Fine Art for featuring Crapes Anyone? in their group.