YOU CAN GROW YOUR OWN WAY (SOUTHERN CATALPA)

Written By Alex Crowson
 
catalpa flower in bloom, Completely Arbortrary

Do trees even exist, man? (Yes, they do.) This week we finish our second part on the "idea" of taxonomy and we dive into this question using the beautiful, rugged, southern catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides) as our guide. Come with us on this most pedantic of journeys.

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals
Episode cover photo by Zeynel Cebeci

Additional Reading:

The southern catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides)
There's No Such Thing as a Tree
Flat-Earthers Have a Wild New Theory About Forests
Why Conservationists Should Heed Pokémon
Insular Woodiness on the Canary Islands: A Remarkable Case of Convergent Evolution

 
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