Catalpa Trees Are Making a Comeback—Here's How to Add One To Your Yard first appeared on Dengarden on Jun 14, 2025 This story was originally reported by Dengarden on Jun 14, 2025, where it first ...

The southern catalpa tree also has medicinal uses—a tea made from the bark has been popular as an antiseptic, snake bite antidote, laxative, sedative, and tincture to remove parasitic worms.

Catalpa bignonioides, or southern Catalpa because they are native to the southern U.S., is somewhat smaller, reaching only about 30 to 40 feet tall. Its leaves are also arranged opposite each other.

Whether a northern, southern or hybrid, each catalpa tree produces copious white flowers with purple and orange patches inside, in early summer. Later, the trees develop long, cigar-like green ...

Catalpa trees are plentiful on our farm, first settled in 1848. The rows of Catalpa trees along the lane and around the farmyard have since spread their seeds over many acres of meadows and woodlands.

Catalpa farming was widespread, with large-scale plantings occurring near Provo, Utah, where 60,000 catalpa trees were distributed along the railroad lines through Colorado and Utah by the Rio Grande ...

The Southern Catalpa on Spring Valley Road would be felled so a local temple can expand. ... Paramus Mayor Chris DiPiazza said the borough had determined that the Catalpa was an “old tree, ...

In the winter, the northern catalpa has unique identifying leaf scars on its twigs. Its leaf scars are sunken, look like suction cups, and have a whorled arrangement of three scars per a node. Another ...

A native tree in North America, its range is from the Rocky Mountains to Texas in the west, to the entire east coast from Florida into eastern regions of Canada. The Southern Catalpa bignonioides ...

The northern catalpa is mostly planted today as a shade tree with beautiful, white speckled flowers. In the past, European settlers planted it for ... Another identifying trait, is that unlike the ...