FLOWER SEEDS

They  say CRAPE MYRTLE ARE COMMONLY PINK!

This is what a Crape Myrtle looks like. You can also make it into a shrub or even a bonsai tree. This is one of the dark pink type. Like the ones I have. 

Cultivated ornamental shrub or small tree often branching near base, with slightly angled and curved or crooked trunks and open, spreading, rounded crown.  Each branch can get up to 4 inches  round.  

The bark is motted gray and brown; smooth and flaking off in patches. Leaving it a beautiful site to see.

Leaves deciduous or evergreen in tropical climate; mostly opposite or upper leaves alternate; often appearing in 2 rows; 1 to 2 inches long, 1/2 to 7/8 inches wide.  Elliptical, without teeth, nearly stalkless.  Dull green above, paler and sometimes hairy on midvein beneath. 

Twigs: light green, turning light brown; long and slender, to angled, hairless or nearly so.  Fruit 3/8 to 1/2 inches in diameter; rounded, brown capsule; splitting into 6 parts; many small, winged seeds, maturing in autum and remaining attached.

This one produced the most this year for me.  I do have another color that is a dark purple, but she didn't produce this year. Hoping for next year!

 This is the white version. Another type that I have. Mine is about 20 ft tall and if I'd let it it would get just as wide. I let mine become a huge shrub that just covers itself in long white clusters of flowers. Its almost 20 years old! I just love that old tree.

This is what the blossoms look like up close. Sometimes they can get pretty long.  Mine have gotten up to almost a 10 inches long. So beautiful when your tree is full of them! They get from 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches wide; with 6 spreading, rounding, crapelike, fringed, stalked petals, commonly pink but varying from white to red, purple, and bluish; ordorless; abundant in showy masses in upright, branches clusters 2 1/2 to 6 inches long; in mid to and late summer.