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saraTM / Getty Images. Catalpa speciosa, also called the northern catalpa or cigar tree, features a loose oval leaf shape and can grow up to 50 feet tall in most urban locations—occasionally up ...

lurii Garmash / Getty Images. The two species of catalpa tree native to the United States—northern and southern catalpa—have a current distribution from New Hampshire and Nebraska in the ...

A celebration of life for Tower Grove Park's gnarly catalpa tree, known to visitors as the 'Keebler Elf Tree', was held on Thursday, June 9, 2022. In the morning children ...

The approximately 80-foot-tall Catalpa was likely planted around the time of the Civil War. "We’ve been told by two people whose ancestors grew up in this county that their ancestors went to ...

In the mid-1800s, Robert Douglas, who owned a nursery in Waukegan, experimented with catalpa trees, touting them as providing the best and most easily available wood for building railroad ties and ...

Catalpa is a deciduous tree that grows 50 to 80 feet tall and up to 40 feet wide with an irregular shape. Massive trunks support multiple crowns of large upward reaching limbs.

Some archeological investigations in West Virginia have discovered catalpa trees dating to the 1500-1700 era. It was thought that the tree was originally limited to the midwest region.

Centuries ago this tree was used for all kinds of medicinal properties of its bark and pods. The name of catalpa originated with North American native peoples and means “head with wings.” ...

The first and only time I saw a red-headed woodpecker in my backyard was when it landed on the catalpa tree. The only time I’ve ever seen an evening grosbeak, a northerly visitor, in my yard ...

Catalpa trees, with two species native to the United States, are known for their beautiful and plentiful blooms and for being the sole source of food for catalpa worms—caterpillars that strip ...