Family: Bignoniaceae
Scientific Name: Chitalpa tashkentsis
Type: Deciduous
Origin: Nonnative
Fun Fact: Chitalpa trees are hybrids that result from crossing Southern Catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides), which are native to the American Southeast and Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis), which originated in the American Southwest. They were combined in the central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s.