Lagerstroemia indica L.

Crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) is a shrub 3-8 meters tall of the Lythraceae family, native to East Asia including China, Korea, and Japan, and now thriving in tropical regions that tend to be dry. Its popularity as an ornamental owes much to its flowers, which bloom nearly year-round. In traditional medicine, this plant is used to relieve dysentery and coughing blood, and as a fever reducer.

Grows up to an elevation of 700 m above sea level, can grow in warm to tropical climates at temperatures of 25-30°C, ideal in hot areas, with average annual rainfall of 1,200-2,400 mm/year, high humidity, and pH < 7 (acidic soil).

• Trunk woody, heavily branched, with curved branches and brown bark.
• Leaves dark green, simple, short-stalked and alternately arranged, elliptical to elongated, 2-7 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, with a blunt but slightly pointed tip.
• Flowers compound, panicle-shaped, clustered at the stem tips or emerging from leaf axils.

• Propagated generatively (by seed) and vegetatively (by air layering and cuttings).
• Cuttings can use mature stems, old stems, and roots.

• Brevifolin, decarboxy ellagic acid, polyphenols, tellimagrandin, nilocitin, astragalin, rutin, catechin, terpenoids, tannins, deoxysugars, saponins, flavonoids, quercetin, apigenin

• Treats breast inflammation (mastitis), jaundice, dysentery, coughing blood, measles; acts as a fever reducer and laxative; treats external skin wounds; detoxifies the body.
   

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