I need help identifying a tree on my property, and no matter how many Google searches I run I can’t seem to find the answer.
So, I’m turning to Twitter, Facebook and any blog readers I may have.
The tree has huge, green heart-shaped leaves, long seed casings that resemble giant vanilla pods, and white flowers that look a bit like orchids.
For a writer, detail is everything, and though “heart-leaved tree” may seem poetic, I’d like to be accurate.
UPDATE: It is a Northern Catalpa tree. One commenter got me searching for orchid trees, but to no avail. Then I found a great site that lists all of the white flowering trees with photos. That’s where I found it. My Facebook friends were a big help and I’m still waiting on a e-mail from an expert with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County.
Photos are below.
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Looks like it might be a desert orchid tree – take a look at this blog -
http://transplanted-californian.blogspot.com/2007/12/bauhinia-variegata-orchid-tree.html
Looks beautiful whatever.
This tree grows in my yard in Spokane, Wa. Very old + huge. I discovered it’s info in one of my old gardening books when I bought this house 15 yrs ago. My house was built in 1904 + I assume from it’s size the tree was planted then. It is also called an Indian Bean tree + they usually grow near water. I live one house away from the Spokane River. I’m new to computers + the enternet so I hope this reaches you. Your site with the poems + photos is interesting. Although I’ve just begun looking at it you’ve made a good impression.