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, Lagerstroemia speciosa
    
2. Tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
   "The pride-of-India trees provided welcome shade in the southern garden";
   - chinaberry, chinaberry tree, China tree, Persian lilac, azedarach, Melia azedarach

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree, tree

Part of: genus Lagerstroemia, genus Melia, Lagerstroemia, Melia

Encyclopedia: Pride-of-India