In the urban landscape
With its huge heart-shaped leaves and white summer flower panicles, the catalpa creates deep pools of shade and is perfect as a specimen tree in parks and school gardens. It grows fast and copes well with urban heat.
Catalpa bignonioides
Southern catalpa
Large heart-shaped leaves and showy summer blooms: a classic shade tree for parks and gardens.
- Habit
- Small tree
- Diameter
- 20 cm
- Height
- 10 m
- Availability
- 110
Did you know?
It is also called the "cigar tree" for its long hanging pods that persist all winter; the name catalpa comes from the language of the Muscogee people, who used it as a medicinal plant.
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