. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Fig. 758. — Catalpa. 2. WESTERN CATALPA — Catalpa spedosa Warder This is a tall tree with a straight, Uttle-branched trunk, of rich river bot- tom lands of southern Indiana, IlHnois, and Missouri, southward into Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas, and has be- come naturalized about villages in Louisiana and Texas. It has received many common names as Hardy catalpa. Cigar tree, Indian bean, and Shawnee- wood. Its maximum he
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. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Fig. 758. — Catalpa. 2. WESTERN CATALPA — Catalpa spedosa Warder This is a tall tree with a straight, Uttle-branched trunk, of rich river bot- tom lands of southern Indiana, IlHnois, and Missouri, southward into Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas, and has be- come naturalized about villages in Louisiana and Texas. It has received many common names as Hardy catalpa. Cigar tree, Indian bean, and Shawnee- wood. Its maximum height is about 40 meters, with a trunk diameter of 1.3 m. The branches are mostly short, form- ing a relatively narrow tree. The bark is about 2.5 cm. thick, broken into thin scales of a reddish brown color. The twigs are stout, light green, sometimes purplish, sparingly hairy or smooth, becoming reddish brown with a slight. Fig. 759. — Western Catalpa. bloom, and like its eastern relative, the ends of the twigs are usually winter killed. The leaves are opposite or in threes, thick and firm, ovate or oblong-ovate, i to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.