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Fourth & Gill Tree Map

  • Tree walk
    • Water Oak
    • Hackberry
    • American Elm
    • Chastetree
    • Pin Oak
    • Japanese Flowering Cherry
    • Overcup Oak
    • Black Gum
    • Trident Maple
    • Chestnut Oak
    • Box Elder
    • Yellowwood
    • Silver Maple
    • Catalpa
    • Black Cherry
    • Serviceberry
    • Gingko
    • Kentucky Coffee Tree
    • Tulip Poplar
    • Green Hawthorn
    • Sugar Maple
    • Sawtooth Oak
    • Black Locust
    • Tulip Poplar
    • Sweetbay Magnolia
    • Eastern Redbud
    • Hackberry
    • Water Oak
    • Green Hawthorn
    • Bald Cypress
    • Apple
    • Apple
    • Smoke Tree
    • Japanese Maple
    • Cucumber Tree
    • Leyland Cypress
    • Crepe Myrtle
    • Eastern Hemlock
    • Red Buckeye
    • Flowering Dogwood
    • Peach
    • Butternut
    • Carolina Silverbell
    • Lacebark Elm
    • Southern Crabapple
    • Black Locust
    • Eastern Redbud
    • Black Locust
  • Local champions
    • Pin Oak
    • Dogwood
    • Crape Myrtle
    • Bur Oak
    • Golden Rain Tree
    • English Oak (Columnar)
    • Chestnut Oak
    • Silver Maple
    • Water Oak
    • Fraser Photinia
    • Hackberry
    • Yellowwood
    • American Elm
    • Sugar Maple
    • Box Elder
    • American Beech
    • Black Walnut
    • Sawtooth Oak
    • Saucer Magnolia
    • Pumpkin Ash
    • Green Ash
    • Black Cherry
    • Chastetree
    • Kentucky Coffee Tree
    • Loblolly Pine
    • Willow Oak
    • American Basswood
    • Northern Catalpa
    • Black Locust
    • Japanese Flowering Cherry
    • Overcup Oak
    • White Mulberry
    • American Holly
    • American Sweet Gum
    • Chinese Fir
    • Southern Magnolia
    • Ginkgo
    • Carolina Silverbell
    • White Pine
    • Chinese Chestnut
    • Weeping Cherry
    • Kousa Dogwood
    • River Birch
    • Sycamore
    • Eastern Hemlock
    • Bald Cypress
    • Post Oak
    • Osage Orange
    • Northern Red Oak
    • Red Buckeye
    • Eastern Redbud
    • Pecan
    • Norway Spruce
    • "Thundercloud" Cherry Plum
    • Red Mulberry
    • Japanese Red Maple
    • Red Maple
    • White Oak
    • Tulip Poplar
    • Yellow Buckeye
    • Black Gum
    • Trident Maple
    • Rosebud Cherry
  • Silver medalists
    • Willow Oak
    • White Oak
    • Northern Red Oak
    • Southern Magnolia
    • White Oak
    • Tulip Poplar
    • White Mulberry
    • Willow Oak
    • Pin Oak
    • Ginkgo
    • Slippery Elm
    • Saucer Magnolia
    • Green Ash
    • Post Oak
    • 0
    • Hackberry
    • Siberian Elm
    • Bald Cypress
    • Pecan
    • American Basswood
    • Sawtooth Oak
    • Tulip Poplar
    • Chestnut Oak
    • Box Elder
  • Invasive specimens
    • Mimosa
    • Paulownia
    • Siberian Elm
    • Tree of Heaven
    • Callery Pear
    • White Poplar
    • Variegated Privet
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear

Northern Catalpa

Catalpa speciosa

Other Names:
Catawba, Cigar tree, Indian bean tree
Native to:
Central & Eastern USA
Sidewalk Visibility:
Excellent+
Public?
No
Diameter:
45"
Conservation Status
Description:
Medium-sized, deciduous tree species that can grow up to 100 feet tall with a 40 feet wide canopy spread. The trunk can reach over 40" in diameter, with brown / gray bark maturing into hard plates or ridges. Leaves are large and heart-shaped. Showy flowers make this a widely-plated ornamental. Often called the "cigar tree", it produces long dark-colored pods that open up to numerous winged seeds. The lumber of the Catalpa has a spicy tobacco-like fragrance, is resistant to decay, and remarkably stable--making it excellent for outdoor applications. However, it's quite underrated and relatively hard to source despite being a common species.
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