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Catalpa species bear broad panicles of showy flowers, generally in summer. The flower colour generally is white to yellow. The flower colour generally is white to yellow. In late summer or autumn the fruit appear; they are siliques about 20–50 centimetres (8–20 in) long, full of small flat seeds, each with two thin wings to aid in wind ...
Catalpa speciosa, commonly known as the northern catalpa, hardy catalpa, western catalpa, cigar tree or catawba, [2] [3] is a species of Catalpa native to the midwestern United States. The Latin specific epithet speciosa means "showy".
Ceratomia catalpae, the catalpa sphinx, is a hawk moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1875. Other common names are the Catawba worm, or Catalpa sphinx.
Catalpa bignonioides is a short-lived [3] [4] species of Catalpa that is native to the southeastern United States in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Common names include southern catalpa , cigartree , and Indian bean tree [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is commonly used as a garden and street tree .
Many species of Bignoniaceae have some use, either commercially or ethnobotanically, but the most important, by far, are those planted as ornamentals, especially the flowering trees. Jacaranda, Campsis, Pyrostegia, Tabebuia, Catalpa, Roseodendron, Handroanthus and Crescentia all have species of horticultural significance, at least in warm climates.
Pages in category "Catalpa" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Catalpa ovata, the yellow catalpa [1] [5] or Chinese catalpa [1] (Chinese: 梓; pinyin: zǐ), is a pod-bearing tree native to China. Compared to C. speciosa , it is much smaller, typically reaching heights between 20 and 30 feet (6 and 9 m).
Bignonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae.Its genus and family were named after Jean-Paul Bignon by his protégé Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in 1694, and the genus was established as part of modern botanical nomenclature in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus.