| X Chitalpa tashkentensis T.S. Elias & W. Wisura |
| Chilopsis linearis (Cav.) Sweet. X Catalpa bignonioides Walter |
| Bignoniaceae |
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Deciduous shrub to small tree about 5 to 9 m high. Leaves alternate, entire, narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, 10-17 cm cm long 2-4.5 cm wide. Lamina glabrous, dull green above, paler and slightly downy beneath. Inflorescence in terminal erect racemes in July. Beautiful flowers about 3 cm long, bell-shaped with crispate lobes, pale to dark pink with purple veins in the throat.
Home: Raised by N. Rusanov in 1964 at Tashkent Botanical Garden (Uzbekistan) Other views: Inflorescence, Flowers Cultivated: France and Germany Author: Frédéric Tournay Not found! Ethnobotanical aspects of X Chitalpa tashkentensis by Plants for a future database Back to the plant list |
