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Noun: Lagerstroemia speciosa
  1. Native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers
    - Queen's crape myrtle, pride-of-India

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree

Part of: genus Lagerstroemia, Lagerstroemia

Encyclopedia: Lagerstroemia speciosa