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Flowers Of Catalpa Speciosa-Quarter-Size

the speciosa, being an upright tree and the other of a straggling form. Its blossoms also open from two to three weeks earlier than bignonioides. There are a number of ornamental varieties, among them golden catalpa, a medium-sized tree with heartshaped leaves, golden in spring but turning green later; catalpa Bungei, from China, a dwarf with large glossy foliage: Japan catalpa, of medium-size, deep green glossy foliage. Flowers fragrant, cream colored, speckled with purple and yelloow; seed pods long and very narrow; flowers about four weeks later than catalpa speciosa.