The chitalpa (Chitalpa tashkentensis) is another late-blooming tree, flowering from July into August. This relatively new hybrid, a cross between the desert willow and a catalpa, is a small to medium ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal: What’s to blame for sudden demise of chitalpa tree?
Q: Our chitalpa tree underperformed last year after 10 years of growth. This year, two-thirds of it is dead. How do I tell if it was verticillium wilt disease or bacterial leaf scorch disease that ...
Los Angeles Times: Tree of the Week: Hybrid chitalpa, available in two varieties
Q: Is it common for the chitalpa tree to partially defoliate in the summer? What would be the optimum amount of water for 15-foot chitalpa tree growing in Kingman, Arizona? A: Chitalpa, like some ...
Even in the furnace of this July, Lubbock is in bloom. The Chitalpa tree is becoming a favorite medium-sized lawn tree and landscape accent specimen because they are floriferous trees, blooming all ...
In the search for better trees for harsh, dry sites, we find only a few with showy flowers and cool green leaves. Here is one to consider: Chitalpa. The name is a contraction of Chilopsis and Catalpa, ...
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...