CATALPA

Catalpa

Catalpa, commonly called catalpa or catawba, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to warm temperate regions of North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia.

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catalpa

Noun

  1. Any tree of the genus , the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, , and the northern catalpa, — along with the yellow catalpa, , from China — are often planted as ornamentals because of their showy flowers and decorative bean pods, though others regard the bean pods as a nuisance.


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