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| Catalpa bignonioides | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Classic classification | ||
| Govern | Plant | |
| subdominion | Tracheobionta | |
| Division (Division is a composition law that associates the product of the first with two numbers…) | Magnoliophyta | |
| Class | Magnoliopsida | |
| Subclass | Asteridae | |
| command | Scrophulariales | |
| Family | Bignoniaceae | |
| Gender | Catalpa | |
| Binomial name (In taxonomy (botany, zoology, etc.), the binomial name or binomial comes from…) | ||
| Catalpa bignonioides Walter, 1788 | ||
| Phylogenetic classification (Phylogenetic classification is a system for classifying living things…) | ||
| command | Lamiales | |
| Family | Bignoniaceae | |
Catalpa bignonioidesalso called Catalpa ball or simply Common trumpet treeis a fairly common tree from the Bignoniaceae family.
habitat
TREE
It is native to the southeastern United States and occurs primarily in the states of Mississippi and Georgia. It is also found in Alabama, Florida and Louisiana. He appreciates fertile, warm and protected soils. It is found in deciduous forests near watercourses.
Possible confusion
Another ornamental species that is often planted in parks and gardens, the paulownia (the paulownia is an ornamental tree native to China and Korea), looks very similar to it. Paulownia species are particularly characterized by their purple flowers, their opposite leaves (instead of 2-3 whorled) and pubescent on both sides (not glabrous on the upper side) and their fruits in egg-shaped, 4 cm long capsules.
Flower (The flower consists of all reproductive organs and coverings…)
Description
In general, the tree reaches a maximum size of 15 meters. At the age of twenty, it can already reach a height of 7 to 8 meters. Its trunk (A trunk can be:) is covered with a bark (The bark is the outer covering of the trunk, branches and roots of trees and more…) in scales.
Its foliage is green (green is a complementary color that corresponds to light of one wavelength…). The leaves are egg-shaped, 10 to 25 cm long and give off an unpleasant odor when crushed. The flowers are 3 to 4 cm in diameter (in a circle or ball, the diameter is a line segment passing through the center…) and are bright yellow in color (there are (at least) five definitions of yellow that are roughly the same describe). …) and purple (purple is a color that consists of a mixture of blue (about 50% brightness) and red…). The flowers, arranged in upright panicles, appear in July.
The fruit, which ripens in October (in botany, the fruit is the plant organ that protects the seed), is a cylindrical capsule 20 to 40 cm long and therefore resembles a pod. The seeds enclosed in the capsule are about 2.5 cm long.