Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The Catalpa tree's name (Catalpa sp.) made it into English and Latin ...

In my travels this past week I’ve seen a lot of catalpa trees covered with clusters of bell-shaped white flowers. Northern ...

The catalpa is sometimes called the Indian bean tree for its production of a distinctive fruit that resembles long, thin bean pods that can grow up to two feet long. The old pod shells are ...

Have you ever heard of a “fence-post tree"? Also known as Indian bean tree, cigar tree, catawba, or caterpillar tree, Catalpa is a large tree with showy white, fragrant flowers, massive heart ...

Catalpas are commonly called “fence-post trees”, Indian bean trees, cigar trees, catawbas, or caterpillar trees. Mature catalpa is a large tree with showy white, fragrant flowers, massive ...

Among country folks you also hear the catalpa referred to as the Catawba tree or catawbie tree, while in books you'll also see it called Indian bean for its long beans. In the old days of cheap ...

“They are wonderful fish bait.” Also known as the Indian Bean Tree, the Southern Catalpa (pronounced ka-tal’pa) tree is native to Virginia. This tree is beautiful in bloom, but throughout ...

the tree has also been called "smoking bean," "Indian bean" and "Indian cigar tree." Now I don't know about getting "high" ON catalpa trees, but I do know a few friends that got too high IN their ...

Among country folks you also hear the catalpa referred to as the Catawba tree or catawbie tree, while in books you'll also see it called Indian bean for its long beans. I'm often asked if the ...

“Catalpa speciosa is also known as Northern catalpa, Indian bean tree, cigar tree, and the latter for the large brown fruits it produces. This native tree, to floodplains of Ohio and Mississippi ...