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==Etymology==
The name derives from the [[Muscogee]] name for the tree, "kutuhlpa" meaning "winged head" and is unrelated to the name of the [[Catawba people]].<ref>[http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/gandf/AJQ0745.0009.436/4?rgn=full+text;view=image Gerard, William R. Plant names of Indian origin_II. Garden and Forest. volume 9, no. 436. page 262. (1896).]</ref><ref>Cassidy, Fred. Lemmatization—The case of "Catalpa". in McIntosh, Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers Dedicated to Angus McIntosh. Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1982. Current issues in linguistic theory, 15.</ref> The spellings "Catalpa" and "Catalpah" were used by [[Mark Catesby]] between 1729 and 1732, and [[Carl Linnaeus]] published the tree's name as ''Bignonia catalpa'' in 1753.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126524#page/216/mode/1up Catesby, Mark.The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. volume 1. page and plate 49.] </ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358643#page/64/mode/1up Linne, Carolus von Linne. Species Plantarum. 1st edition. 1753. volume 2. page 622]</ref> [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] established the genus ''Catalpa'' in 1777.

The bean-like seed pod is the origin of the alternative vernacular names '''Indian bean tree''' and '''cigar tree''' for ''[[Catalpa bignonioides]]'' and ''[[Catalpa speciosa]]'', respectively.

[[Image:Catalpa Reading.JPG|left|thumb|The catalpa tree in Reading, Berkshire, England]]