| Description | Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) A large growing tree with a great floral display in June. |
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| Plant Type | Trees Deciduous, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-8 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | tolerant of many different soil conditions. |
| Flowers | white panicles with yellow and purple markings blooming in June |
| Fruit | long pea shaped brown pendulous capsules 8-20" long, seeds are fringed |
| Leaves | large, deltoid, medium green, tend to drop early in the fall, no fall color |
| Dimensions | a large tree 40-60' high by 20-40' spread |
| Maintenance | lots of petals to rake after flowering, lots of seed pods to rake in the fall |
| Propagation | I have put the seeds in pots and over wintered in a cold frame and they have readily germinated. Some references state no stratification is needed. |
| Native Site | North America and China |
| Misc Facts | AKA: northern catalpa, hardy catalpa, western catalpa, cigar tree, catawba-tree, or bois chavanon |
| Author's Notes | In the area where I live there are a lot of Catalpa that have been planted as ornamentals. I enjoy seeing all of the trees come into flower in June. After the flowers are done we get "Catalpa Snow" from all the flower petals. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #03-The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs (Hillier Nursery), #181-Native Trees for North America (Guy Sternberg) |
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