DIY: Plant Your Own Backyard Bait Tree for Fishing Game & Fish **1. Cigar Tree Nickname** Catalpa's seed pods look like dangling cigars or green beans (up to 20 inches long!)earning it names like Cigar Tree or Indian Bean Tree. These pods stay Catalpa Cigar Tree How Good Is Catalpa Firewood? Axe Adviser These are seed pods from Catalpa speciosa, a fast growing north american tree also known as The Bean Tree because of it's bean like pods