species: Chitalpa tashkentensis
common name: chitalpa
family: Bignoniaceae
where & when encountered: Ventura, CA - 2016
The chitalpa tree is a hybrid of desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) and southern catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides). The name chitalpa was coined in 1991 at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. The hybrid itself was created in by a botanist in Uzbekistan in 1964.
Our beloved chitalpa, gone with the wind.... literally.
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