Catalpa bungei

Manchurian catalpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Bignoniaceae
Genus: Catalpa
Species: C. bungei
Binomial name
Catalpa bungei
C.A.Mey.

Catalpa bungei, commonly known as Manchurian catalpa, is a species of catalpa native to China. The specific epithet honors the botanist Alexander Bunge, who collected the specimens that Carl Anton von Meyer later described.[1] The flowers are arranged in a corymb and are densely spotted with pink. It is cultivated in China, along with C. ovata, for its wood (known as "qui wood" or "chu wood") and as an ornamental tree.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Olsen, Richard T.; Kirkbride, Jr., Joseph H. (2010). "Manchurian Catalpa" (PDF). Arnoldia, The Magazine of the Arnold Arboretum 68 (2): 75. Retrieved 27 May 2013.

External links

Manchurian catalpa in bloom at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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