CATALPA bignonioides 'AUREA'

golden Indian bean tree, Indian bean tree 'AUREA'

CATALPA bignonioides 'AUREA'

golden Indian bean tree, Indian bean tree 'AUREA'

  • Maintenance advice : Short pruning at the end of winter if it is to be shaped as a shrubby variety with large, lush foliage to the expense of flowering. Otherwise it is pruned very little, only if necessary, to let it form a tree.
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : Horticultural origin; bred before 1877
  • Use group : Bäumen
  • Height at 10 years : 6 m
  • Width at 10 years : 4 m
  • Growth : Fast
  • Fragrance : No
  • Exposure : Sun - Half shade
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Deciduous
  • Shape : spreading
  • Colour of leaves : Yellow, gold
  • Colour of flowers : White/yellow
  • Soil type : Garden soil
  • Uses : Free standing specimen
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Can reach 5 to 10 m tall if not trimmed. It can be pruned short every year at the end of winter in order to obtain a branched plant from the base . The foliage is then remarkably huge and colourful and the flowering is suppressed. Melliferous plant.