RE: Fwd: Pruning a Princess Tree

We had one of these when I was a kid in Oregon -- the Paulownia -- 
and it was huge, tall as the one in the Berkeley Botanical garden. 
We always called it the "Empress Tree" and it certainly was stately 
all year round, with its great form, wonderful leafs and of course, 
delightful when filled with its annual display of blue flowers. 
People used to come and take pictures of it. Of course, as a kid, I 
was always embarrassed by all of this.  My uncle was a maritime 
insurance investigator and he always brought back seeds and cuttings 
from his travels.  We had our own botanical garden.

Carol

>Here is the common name problem again.  Around here the Tibouchina is the
>princess tree and the Paulownia is the empress tree.
>
>Joan DeFato
>Plant Science Library
>The Arboretum of Los Angeles County
>301 North Baldwin Avenue
>Arcadia, CA 91007-2697
>Phone: (626) 821-3213  Fax: (626) 445-1217
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Seals [g*@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 12:43 PM
>To: davidfeix@yahoo.com; nswearengen@hotmail.com;
>medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Pruning a Princess Tree
>
>
>Isn't "Princess Tree" also a common name for Paulownia
>tomentosa?
>
>Is Mr. John Young asking about this old-time,
>overly-marketed Chinese tree or does he want to know
>about Tibouchina (which I've always called Glory
>Bush)?
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