Chitalpa tashkentensis Brookgreen Gardens The heavy crop ripens through

The heavy crop ripens through late fall and winter

this is a collector's native for the sunny meadow

or thread among ferns

and in traditional Chinese medicine the dried immature fruit and peel

which you should

Chitalpa tashkentensis Brookgreen Gardens The heavy crop ripens throughChitalpa tashkentensis is a plant with a passport, an intergeneric hybrid that pairs the American desert willow, Chilopsis linearis, with a catalpa, and carries the frilled trumpet flowers of one parent on the willowy, drought hardy frame of the other. The name itself is a splice, Chilopsis joined to Catalpa, while tashkentensis records the birthplace, the botanical garden at Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, where the cross was raised in the 1960s. From that