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Plant: Twilight - Crape Myrtle
Crape Myrtle · Lagerstroemia indica 'Twilight'
Size: 7 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
Twilight is a deciduous crape myrtle with dark foliage and plum-purple summer flowers in large panicles that fade to fuchsia pink at the tips. Mottled gray bark peels to reveal lighter tones for winter interest, and the leaves turn orange to burgundy in fall. It wants full sun and well-drained soil, tolerates drought once established, and works as a specimen, screen or street tree.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 25 ft tall and 20 ft wide
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Twilight is a deciduous crape myrtle with dark foliage and plum-purple summer flowers in large panicles that fade to fuchsia pink at the tips. Mottled gray bark peels to reveal lighter tones for winter interest, and the leaves turn orange to burgundy in fall. It wants full sun and well-drained soil, tolerates drought once established, and works as a specimen, screen or street tree.
- Flowers
- Plum-purple flowers, fading to fuchsia pink at the branch tips, in panicles from July to September.
- Foliage
- Simple leaves 1 to 2.75 inches long; dark purple-green to bronze new growth maturing to deep green, with orange to burgundy fall color.
- Fruit
- A six-valved capsule under 1 inch that splits to release winged seeds.
- Bark & stems
- Mottled gray bark that peels to reveal lighter tones, giving winter interest.
- Pruning
- Severe pruning or topping should not be needed to control size. Make thinning cuts in late winter or spring, before the new growth that bears blooms begins.
- Native range
- Central Himalaya to southern China and Indo-China, Philippines, Japan (species)
