Tree Information

Common Name: Japanese crapemyrtle

Scientific Name: Lagerstroemia fauriei

Native/Naturalized: Not Naturalized

Database ID: 2698

Status: alive

National Champion: no

Virginia Champion: yes

Circumference: 117 in.

Height: 55 ft.

Crown: 47 ft.

Points: 184

Date Last Measured: 2019

Last Measured by: Erik Platt

Date First Measured: 2019

Comments: Tree was planted by the owner 44 years ago when it was about 4' tall. Pamela Harper, the owner, is a published author of gardening books, and reports that the tree is one of the earliest imported and oldest extant specimens of this species in the country.

Tree is healthy and vigorous, but is subject to periodic pruning due to adjacent power line. Tree was heavily topped about 10 years ago, but efforts will be made in the future to prune for utility clearance more carefully.

Growth habit is typical of the species, forking into two dominant leaders about 2' above ground line. Trunk circumference was measured at smallest girth, about 8" above ground line.

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