Chitalpa Query
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- Subject: Chitalpa Query
- From: T* C*
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:36:15 -0500
- References: <200004250601.BAA18736@lorien.mallorn.com>
Never heard of Chitalpa.
Does it also have the poisonous beans that hang down?
Does it get as big?
Catalpa is the favorite tree for totem poles in these parts, the wood is
white and clear, and lasts well once finished. Ants and termites seem to
avoid it.
I've always liked the flowers on the Catalpa tree, but a child on our block
ate a bean and died, way back when I was a kid. Can't bring myself to plant
one. There is no known antidote for the poison.
Something in me hopes there is a less toxic cousin out there.
Is there an online Nursery with a picture of a Chitalpa?
Tim Chavez Wichita Kansas Zone 6
My garden is going nuts with blooms. Widows tears and Woodland phlox
starting Columbine and Verbena, 3 kinds of Coreopsis, Tiarella's pink sprays
and Veronica Chemaedreus [sp?] has gorgeous blue flowers to match my wife's
eyes [first bloom in my garden]. The sundrops are trying to over-run the
garden.
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