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the tree dripping foot-long bean pods it never bothered to fill with edible beans
means A large ornamental tree with broad heart-shaped leaves, showy white flowers, and long slender seedpods, native to North America and East Asia.
from The name comes from Catawba, the name of a Native American people of the Carolinas, whose word for the tree English speakers borrowed in the early 18th century. Somewhere in the passing from one tongue to another the letters shuffled — the 'wb' softened into 'lp' — and the botanist Mark Catesby fixed the altered spelling 'Catalpa' in print, where it stuck.
- giant leaves
- Heart-shaped foliage rivaling dinner plates in size
- bean impostor
- Pods look edible but aren't beans at all
- worm magnet
- Caterpillars on it are prized fishing bait
- orchid blooms
- White trumpet flowers speckled purple and gold inside
- fast grower
- Shoots up quickly then ages soft and brittle
northern catalpa — tree native to southeastern us, grows 40-60 feet tall with large heart-shaped leaves
southern catalpa — tree native to southeastern us, smaller than northern catalpa, blooms with white spotted flowers
chinese catalpa — tree species from china, cultivated ornamentally in temperate zones worldwide