Manchurian catalpa | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Bignoniaceae |
Genus: | Catalpa |
Species: | C. bungei |
Binomial name | |
Catalpa bungei C.A.Mey. (1837) | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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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. [3] 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, [4] which is also used for coffins, [5] ancestral tablets, [6] and oars. [7] It also used as an ornamental tree. [3]