Catalpa+Tree

All About The Catalpa Tree!
===﻿Catalpa General Info: A short trunked, broad-crowned tree, to 49 feet native to Southern states, but now widely planted and frequently escaped in the Eastern U.S. Usually planted for its shade and flowers the wood is durable and useful for posts. The Northern catalpa, C. speciosa Warden, with larger flowers and wider pods, has also been planted in the Commonwealth.===

Catalpa Bark: Light Brown, shallowly ridged and scaled.
===﻿Catalpa Fruit: Bean-like, 15 inches long, half an inch wide, halves seperating when ripe, may persist tips of branches all winter, many seeds, each with long whit hairs on both ends. Flowers in July, arranged in terminal clusters about 10 inches long; each showy flower white with yellow and purple spots, 2 inches diameter.===