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Catawba Flowers


Catawba Flowers
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Copyright: Morag Hamilton (lebois) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 57 W: 1 N: 71] (316)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-06-25
Categories: Nature, Macro
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/146 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-06-26 4:35
Viewed: 562
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Catalpa (Catalpa), also spelled Catawba, is a genus of mostly deciduous trees of the United States, West Indies, and east Asia, in the flowering plant family Bignoniaceae.
Catalpas grow to 10-25 m tall, and can be recognized by their large heart-shaped to three-lobed leaves, showy white or yellow flowers in broad panicles, and in the autumn by their 20-50 cm long fruits which resemble a slender bean pod, containing numerous small flat seeds, each seed having two thin wings to aid wind dispersal.
The name derives from the Catawba Native American name catawba for these trees (the tribal totem), with the spelling Catalpa being due to a transcription error on the part of the describing botanist (Scopoli) making the first formal scientific description of the genus. The rules of botanical naming state that the spelling used in the formal scientific description has to be retained for the scientific name. The name in vernacular use has very largely (though not completely) followed Scopoli's erroneous transcription, with catawba still in use in some areas of the United States, most particularly within the trees' native range.
The bean-like seed pod is the origin of the alternative vernacular names Indian Bean Tree and Cigar Tree for C. bignonioides and C. speciosa.
The tree is the food plant of the Catalpa Sphinx moth, the leaves being eaten by the caterpillars.
The largest living Catalpa tree is on the lawn of the Michigan State Capitol.
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Hi Morag.

Wonderful display of these blooms, very unusual indeed, love the notes, welldone.

Stv.

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  • Silke Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2847 W: 263 N: 5947] (23588)
  • [2006-06-26 8:41]

I love the colours and the composition. Thanks to your perfect focus, one can almost feel the texture too.
Very well done -- thank you for sharing

Great photo! Nice colors & good detail on the white, which is sometimes hard to capture. Donald

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