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Catalpa bungei, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Catalpa bungei

Manchurian catalpa · also Bunge's catalpa

42
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
3
cities
9.5 in
median trunk (24 cm, 40 measured)

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This temperate tree, native to China, features pink-spotted flowers arranged in corymbs. It is often cultivated as an ornamental tree and for its wood.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Vancouver · Canada
    33—8.0 in
  2. Boston · United States
    523 yr59 in
  3. Paris · France
    4—10 in

Traits

Mature height
30–40 ft
Canopy spread
30–40 ft
Growth rate
Fast

Trunk diameters across every city: median 9.5 in, mean 14 in, 90th percentile 40 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
  • Northeast China Plain deciduous forests

Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

  • South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests

Other Catalpa in the catalogue

7 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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