The broad bean tree (Catalpa genus) is undoubtedly the most beautiful flowering tree in midsummer: the flowers are conical, aggregate or umbel-shaped, up to 30 cm tall, and the flowers are usually white with yellow and red spots.
Broad bean tree
Catalpa trees are distributed in China. The tree is 6 to 10 (15) meters tall, and the canopy is extended;
Gold Leaf American Zi
The leaves are opposite, broad heart-shaped to ovate, 12 to 25 cm long, with 3 to 5 pointed lobes;
leaf
American Zi is distributed in North America. Round canopy, 6 to 20 meters high; leaves are generally 3 pieces of rotation, wide heart to ovate, 12 to 20 cm long, sometimes 2 small cracks, the leaves are crushed to emit a strong unpleasant odor; the flowers are conical inflorescences, 13 to 25 cm long, the corolla is 4 to 5 cm long, white, there are yellow stripes and purple spots inside the tube; the fruit is 15 to 40 cm long. The cultivated variant Golden-leaved Catalpa has yellow leaves; the dwarf American Catalpa is only 2 meters tall and may have more than 1 clone.
The flowers are fragrant, conical inflorescences, 10 to 25 cm long, corolla length less than 2.5 cm, yellow to white, orange stripes and purple spots inside the tube;
flower
The fruit is 30 cm long. It has been cultivated for a long time in Japan.
Golden trees are distributed in North America. The tree is 30 meters high. The leaves are broadly heart-shaped to ovate and 15 to 30 cm long. Relatively few flowers form a conical inflorescence, 15 to 18 cm long, the corolla is large, 5 to 6 cm wide, 4 to 5 cm long, the inside of the tube is white, there are a few purple spots, and the mouth is trimmed. The fruit is 22 to 45 cm long.