Chitalpa Tree. Plant a chitalpa tree if you want a small, flowering accent tree for your yard. The chitalpa is as unlikely a tree as one might imagine.
Plant a chitalpa tree if you want a small, flowering accent tree for your yard. The chitalpa is a cross between catalpa bignonioides and chilopsis linearis. In fact, its thin leaves. Chitalpa is an intergeneric cross between catalpa bignonioides and chilopsis linearis.
It is a tree i would be interested in planting.
After all, who would've thought the cross between the catalpa (not the most desirable shade tree) and the desert willow (one could hardly describe it as a stately specimen). The chitalpa tree is supposed to have a long tap root which is why he suggested this tree foremost. The chitalpa blooms from spring until fall and the pink or white. × chitalpa is an intergeneric hybrid flowering tree in the family bignoniaceae.
