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**'Lipan', 'Sioux', 'Tonto',** and **'Yuma'****The U.S. National Arboretum presents four Gold Medal award-winning hybrid crapemyrtle cultivars:'Lipan', 'Sioux', 'Tonto', and 'Yuma'**.  These four selections in the large shrub to small tree category offer a marvelous palette of flower, trunk, and fall foliage color combinations from which to select the perfect plant for your landscape. All four are field resistant to powdery mildew.
**Recognition:**Georgia Gold Medal Winners, Georgia Plant Selections Committee, 1996. Florida Plant of the Year, 1998
**'Lipan'** (NA 54978, PI 499824)
**'Lipan', 'Sioux', 'Tonto',** and **'Yuma'** Hybrid Crapemyrtle**'Sioux'** (NA 54971, PI 499818)**Botanical Name:***Lagerstroemia (indica x fauriei)* 'Lipan', 'Sioux', 'Tonto', and 'Yuma'**Family:** Lythraceae**Hardiness:** Reliably top hardy to U.S.D.A. Zone 7b,  root hardy to U.S.D.A. Zone 6**Development:** In 1959, Dr. Donald Egolf began a crapemyrtle research project at the U.S. National Arboretum to develop disease resistance, hardiness, true flower color, recurrent flowering, and both shrub and tree type growth habits.  Germplasm of *Lagerstroemia fauriei* was collected in Japan by Dr. John Creech and distributed to the arboretum.  This material was discovered to be resistant to powdery mildew and to possess a unique, heritable, dark brown trunk color.  *L. fauriei*was incorporated into the research program with great success.  Twenty-seven crapemyrtle cultivars have been released, 20 of which are *L. indica x L. fauriei* hybrids.**Significance:** The successful hybridization of Lagerstroemia indica with Lagerstroemia fauriei revolutionized the development of crapemyrtle.  In addition to field resistance to powdery mildew, the hybrids provide new trunk colors that in the future may be sought as much as the brilliant flowers.**Description:****Culture:** Plants grow best in full sun in reasonably heavy loam to clay soil with a pH of 5.0-6.5.  Adaptable to a wide range of landscape conditions.**Propagation:** Root easily from soft to semi-softwood cuttings taken before flowering, under mist, 1000-3000 ppm IBA, in 2-6 weeks.**Landscape Use:** Specimen plant, trained single stem as a small tree, informal tall hedges, background for perennial border, or in containers.  Adaptable for home garden, parks, industrial complexes, roadsides and malls.**Availability:** Readily available from mail-order firms and retail and wholesale nurseries.**'Lipan', 'Sioux', 'Tonto',** and **'Yuma'** Hybrid Crapemyrtle**'Tonto'** (NA 54972, PI 534644)
**'Yuma'** (NA 54975, PI 499821)**U.S. National Arboretum Plant Introduction**Floral and Nursery Plants Research UnitU.S. National Arboretum, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 3501 New York Ave., N.E., Washington, DC 20002
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