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Wow, if the following commenter's description is the correct type of Catalpa, we have 2 of these trees in our backyard and they are 40 fe...Read More
As a youth, I called this the "Indian Cigar Tree" and actually smoked the pods. One grows 200 yards away in a neighbor's North Carolina ...Read More
This is the only living tree I have ever cut down. The trunk was over 3 feet in diameter. The leaves smell like cigarettes, but the mai...Read More
we got have this tree in my yard. it is pretty. it throws sticks at me when i go to work. the dam thing is big big big. i lik the shad bu...Read More
As everyone can tell by my user name, I like the tree. My family farms for a living and uses this tree as a fence row. We cut up Catalp...Read More
my toy pug became drowsy after chewing on one of the bean pods from my catalpa tree. It is truly halucinagenic like people have said it is.
My tree is a three year-old volunteer. I have a question: I have a single bee making a home in a hollow tube of a garden table, he/she i...Read More
I agree with many of the previous comments about the upsides of this tree. We had a very tall Catalpa in our Sacramento backyard for many...Read More
I live in my family home which has been in the family since the 1930s when it was built. There are two large Catalpa trees in the yard w...Read More
Beautiful tree but MESSY! We live in Chicago and are constantly cleaning up the dried bean pods from our yard, the neighbor's yards, the ...Read More
We have lots of these trees on our place. 2 big ones 50' tall and 3' in diameter, are favorites for their nice shaped curving branches, n...Read More
Despite a number of potential negative's for some people, these are spectacular trees. They're plentiful in our area, and free-seed, gro...Read More
This information was given to me by RainbowRider. I thought it was very interesting and was given permission to add to the plant file....Read More
I love this tree. It is not natural to my area, the east coast of Vancouver Island, which is off the west coast of British Columbia, Ca...Read More
I notice catalpa trees on old farmer's home steads. Our home was built in 1867 and we have a huge old catalpa that I just love. It must...Read More
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Our Catalpa tree was huge and healthy when we moved i...Read More
This tree is awsome. My brother planted it 40 yrs ago and its going strong. Its wayyy over our house, so probably 40-50 ft...I am getti...Read More
We have two of these trees in the front yard of our rental house (now, two-years residents). Do not know age, but the catalpas are over t...Read More
Can sometimes exhibit iron chlorosis in Alkaline soils when Catalpa speciosa (Northern Catalpa) does not, thus the Northern Catalpa can b...Read More
Not a very attractive tree. Large heart shaped leaves turn dead deep gray in fall. Scraggly limbs appear dull black in winter with messy ...Read More
I can remember as a child in central Louisiana, my stepfather teaching me how to fish. I throughly loved to go fishing with him. We had...Read More
Messy,12 mos.per yr.,with little fragrance of blossoms. On a small city lot this 40 ft.ér will anger neighbors on all ajoining propertie...Read More
I've just received a catalpa tree from a "neighbor" where I live in the mid-Willamette Valley of Oregon. She regularly starts seeds from ...Read More
The tree is pretty enough, but has caterpillars on it that fall off and get all over your porch, the yard, the road, your vehicle. Every...Read More
My boyfriend and I are HUGE fishers. As we were driving to get out bait, he took me...to a tall, beautiful plant with that he called, a "...Read More
A colleague and I had, quite separately, observed this tree growing from a pavement in London, England totally surrounded by pavement bet...Read More
One of the top ten comment-getters in my yard. My grandma planted this years and years ago ~ Mom said she remembers the tree being matur...Read More
The roots are supposed to be highly poisonous. The flowers may cause dermatitis in some people and their odor may be poisonous. It is usu...Read More
I have 6 Catalpa trees. My grandparents had 1 large one while I was growing up. As babies came up I asked if I could have them. They p...Read More
I live in north Louisiana and there are literally hundreds of these trees around here, the folks around here use them mostly for fish bai...Read More
One of these came up in my huge flower garden and I let it remain. It is a fast growing tree here in Alabama and now provides shade for ...Read More
We have three of these trees growing in our back yard. We are in north east Victoria, 144.18 m above sea level, about 500 kms north of Me...Read More
I'm growing a few catalpa trees. Largest is currently 5 feet tall. I live in Southern California (Hermosa Beach) and I got my seeds fro...Read More
I am very interested in learning the difference between the Catalpa and Catawba trees. I have just started researching them on the intern...Read More
I grew up in North Carolina (U.S.) and have very fond memories of the Catawba trees that grew beside our fish pond out back. My Dad caug...Read More
Years ago my father use to put catawba worms in a cigar box and put them into the refrigerator to keep until the next morning for fishing...Read More
I grew up in Georgia (U.S.) and we hunted for the Catawba trees just to get the worms. We'd cut them in half and turn the half inside out...Read More
This tree was full grown in my yard when I moved in 10 years ago. It is a good, smooth-bark climbing tree for my kids. Branches are stu...Read More
The web-building caterpillar that eats the Catawba leaves serves a useful purpose. The sphinx moth lays the eggs which hatch into caterp...Read More
This tree gets quite large here in the South and grows rapidly.I've seen them over 60 feet quite often...some much larger.
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This is a medium sized tree that gets from 35-40 feet.Has large heart-shaped deciduous leaves, and clustered ,frilly, bell-shaped,white ...Read More