Category:Catalpa

The Catalpa plant, also called Catawba has fruits--bean-like seed pods--that measure from 8-20 inches long (20–50 centimeters). They are an ornamental tree with soft wood, which is used as a tonewood in guitars.

Ca*tal"pa, n. Etym: [From the language of the Indians of Carolina, where Catesby discovered this tree in the year 1726.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean.