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The catalpa tree is widely cultivated in the southern United States as an ornamental shade tree. The white tubular flowers, tinged with purple, are succeeded by long, beanlike pods.

Any of a group of trees belonging to the trumpet creeper family, found in North America, China, and the West Indies. The northern catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) of North America grows to 20 m/65 ft and has heart-shaped deciduous leaves and tubular white flowers with purple borders. (Genus Catalpa, family Bignoniaceae.)



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Its pale yellow flowers are smaller than those of other catalpas.
Catalpas have ragged crowns of coarse-textured branches adorned with huge heart-shaped leaves, big enough that a catalpa leaf once served as an impromptu umbrella for my two-year-old daughter during an afternoon shower.
 
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