"Eric Miller" wrote in message
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I have been looking for another plant to attract humminbirds and noticed
the one in the photos at the following link:

http://www.dyesscreek.com/hidden_pages/030908.html

Aside from the photos, here is what I know about the plant:

It is in Zone 9a and has survived temps down to upper teens last winter.
It is deciduous. Two weeks ago when I last saw both plants (they are about
two miles apart), they had no leaves. The photos showing the blooms were
taken in mid-May, two years ago. The height is approximately 10 feet for
the one in the second photo, about eight feet for the one in the first
photo. After the blooms are gone, I have never noticed fruit on the plant.

Eric Miller
www.colibrihotsauce.com

This does not look like a crepe myrtle to me. I live in East Texas, and it
certainly would not fit any of the varieties we have here (although the
blossoms do look somewhat like the blossoms might look at the very end of
their season when the petals of all except the end have dropped). Still, I
have not seen any where the entire tree would look like that. It does look
like a myrtle of some sort, though. The leaves look somewhat like a wax
myrtle, but the flowers do not.

MaryL