Permanent unique identifier for this particular organism:
http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/6-159
Notes:
Located between the Divinity School and Garland Hall, this is the biggest catalpa tree in the arboretum, with a diameter of 111 cm (44 in.), height of 18 m (60 ft), and crown spread of 16 m (52 ft.).
Catalpas are noteworthy for their showy white flowers in the spring, and long, thin fruits that form in the summer and persist throughout the winter. On this particular tree, there are numerous rows of sapsucker holes, made by a woodpecker that returns to the holes it pecks to lick the sap and any insects that are stuck in it. Sapsucker holes are not particular to catalpa trees - who knows why the bird chose this particlar tree for its holes?
Catalpas are noteworthy for their showy white flowers in the spring, and long, thin fruits that form in the summer and persist throughout the winter. On this particular tree, there are numerous rows of sapsucker holes, made by a woodpecker that returns to the holes it pecks to lick the sap and any insects that are stuck in it. Sapsucker holes are not particular to catalpa trees - who knows why the bird chose this particlar tree for its holes?
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This organism is a living specimen that is part of the Vanderbilt University Arboretum with the local identifier 2-182.
This particular organism is believed to have managedmeans of establishment.
This organismal entity has the scope: multicellular organism.
Remarks:Cut down in 2024 for the expansion of Garland Hall.
Identifications:
Catalpa speciosa
(Warder) Warder ex Engelm.
sec. Gleason Cronquist 1991
common name: northern catalpa
family: Bignoniaceae
Identified 2014-08-26 by Steven J. Baskauf
Location:
west of the Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US
Click on these geocoordinates to load a map showing the location: 36.14656°, -86.8013°
Coordinate uncertainty about: 10 m.
Location of individual determined from GIS database.
Occurrences were recorded for this particular organism on the following dates:
2014-08-26
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