This is a Catalpa Tree I drew in Provincetown. Healthy catalpas have huge leaves, big enough for a hat and long seed pots that look like stringbeans when they are on the tree but are hard and durable once they've fallen and turned brown.

This is a catalpa tree I saw in Provincetown, MA. It is in fact the most beautiful catalpa I’ve ever seen. Catalpas are disiduous trees with leaves big and wide enough to wear as hats and seed pods that look like string beans hanging on the branch but become hard, brown and durable once they fall to earth. Catalpas also sport quickly falling white flowers in spring that create a white blanket beneath the tree which disappears so quickly you could easily miss it. I know all this because there is an old one in my back yard in Brooklyn.