Not very much to go on

[Rupe]

MMmm, catalpa was one of my guesses but the customer didn't think so. Its a much smaller leaf than I have seen on catalpas before, and there reddish colour is unusual to me. Also the customer says she has not seen any beans on it??

[sean]

seen quite a few catalpas knocking around in decline.....and mimosas!

[defenderjack]

i think your being a bit soft janey is it because he said nice things on your underwear thread lol (that was what your thread was wasnt it )

[Rupe]

Just looking in my book, the indian bean tree is what I call catalpa but there are others. Is it just the IBT that has the big seed pods??

 

This one looks like a hybrid catalpa and that explains the reddish purple leaves, but the leaves ideally should be much bigger, maybe thats a further sympton of decline.

 

Could the frosts be part of the problem? This tree is in a very exposed garde and all the Bay trees there have been lost this winter.

[janey]

MMmm, catalpa was one of my guesses but the customer didn't think so. Its a much smaller leaf than I have seen on catalpas before, and there reddish colour is unusual to me. Also the customer says she has not seen any beans on it??

 

I thought you would've learnt by now to never fully believe a customer

[defenderjack]

MMmm, catalpa was one of my guesses but the customer didn't think so. Its a much smaller leaf than I have seen on catalpas before, and there reddish colour is unusual to me. Also the customer says she has not seen any beans on it??

 

they sometimes have long pods that dangle off them , look a bit like ruuner bean pods

[janey]

i think your being a bit soft janey is it because he said nice things on your underwear thread lol (that was what your thread was wasnt it )

 

What can I say? I'm just naturally nice . Someone's got to be on here

[Rupe]

I thought you would've learnt by now to never fully believe a customer

 

 

Thats why I'm here for a second opinion. If I believed her then all her trees of heaven would actually be ash trees.

 

Always pretend to believe the customer!!

[Rupe]

they sometimes have long pods that dangle off them , look a bit like ruuner bean pods

 

Yeah, thats what I asked her but she hadn't noticed any.

[Peter]

Does she think she knows what it is?

 

If not then just make up a name, something really obscure, invent an equally obscure disease that its suffering from, and tell her it needs to be felled to prevent the imaginary disease from spreading.

 

Sorted.