Catalpa means deciduous tree, cure woodcraft, also refers to hometown, surname, name.

Catalpa mostly refers to trees with umbrella-shaped crowns, straight trunks, and sparsely pilose shoots. Leaves opposite or subopposite, sometimes whorled, broadly ovate, subequal in length and width, ca. 25 cm, acuminate at the tip, cordate at the base, entire or shallowly undulate, often 3-lobed, the blade scabrous above and below, puberulent or nearly glabrous.

The fruit (catalpa) is used as medicine (containing 0.1-0.4% of citric acid and p-hydroxybenzoic acid; the seeds contain 10% of fatty oil; the leaves contain 2% of p-hydroxybenzoic acid), and it has a significant diuretic effect, and it can be used as a diuretic to treat kidney disease, renal gas cystitis, cirrhosis of the liver, and ascites.

Expanded Information:

1, zi, rowan also. --Shuowen

2. The tree of hazel and chestnut, chair, tung, catalpa, and lacquer. -- "Poetry - Yong Feng - Ding Zhi Fangzhong"

3, Jiangnan out of the nan and catalpa. -- "Shi Ji - Cargo Shik Lie Zhuan"

4, also known as: zi man (refers to the printing industry engraving workers); zi line (engraved printing line); zi carving (engraved plate, indicating that the book will be printed)

5, the hometown of the pronouns. Mulberry and Catalpa abbreviation [native place] because the ancient mansion next to the often planted trees, is the catalpa and mulberry

6, I do not love the brocade clothes, honor return to boast Zili. -Liu Ying "Title Liu De Wen play color hall"

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