indian bean tree
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Indian Bean Tree: This tree is not from India and it doesn't produce beans! It's a showy tree - Catalpa Bignonioides - from the south-eastern parts of the USA, grown for its large, floppy leaves up to 25cm long and 15cm wide. They open later than most, but make a fantastic show, and the weight has been known to snap off branches on mature trees. There's a prolific show of midsummer white flowers, followed by thin, green, bean-like pods (which turn brown) up to 40cm long. The specimen shown here in full leaf in 2015 stands on the wide pavement in from of the J.D. Cleaners/Barclays Bank building.
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Indian Bean Tree 1: The tree in late summer 2016 - full of leaves.
Indian Bean Tree 2: The tree in autumn 2016 - with the trees thinning out for winter.
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Indian Bean Tree: The bare branches of the tree silhouetted against the sky in February 2017.
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Indian Bean Tree: This view from the south in mid-July 2017 shows the flowers in their full glory. Two days later, they were gone...
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Indian Bean Tree: Late July 2019, and the view of the whole tree was marred by building works outside the former Barclays Bank building, so I grabbed a close-up of the blossom while it was still on the tree.
Indian Bean Tree: This tree is not from India and it doesn't produce beans! It's a showy tree - Catalpa Bignonioides - from the south-eastern parts of the USA, grown for its large, floppy leaves up to 25cm long and 15cm wide. They open later than most, but make a fantastic show, and the weight has been known to snap off branches on mature trees. There's a prolific show of midsummer white flowers, followed by thin, green, bean-like pods (which turn brown) up to 40cm long. The specimen shown here in full leaf in 2015 stands on the wide pavement in from of the J.D. Cleaners/Barclays Bank building.
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Indian Bean Tree 1: The tree in late summer 2016 - full of leaves.
Indian Bean Tree 2: The tree in autumn 2016 - with the trees thinning out for winter.
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Indian Bean Tree: The bare branches of the tree silhouetted against the sky in February 2017.
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Indian Bean Tree: This view from the south in mid-July 2017 shows the flowers in their full glory. Two days later, they were gone...
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Indian Bean Tree: Late July 2019, and the view of the whole tree was marred by building works outside the former Barclays Bank building, so I grabbed a close-up of the blossom while it was still on the tree.