Re: empress tree
- Subject: Re: empress tree
- From: D* M*
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 01:23:05 -0600
> reply to
>Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:29:49 +1200
>From: "Paul Trownson" <DrPaulBear@xtra.co.nz>
>Subject: Re: Empress Tree question?
>
>
>This tree is quite fast growing in the New York City area. (US zone 7)
>I have only seen them grown by accident. I have not seen one at any local
>botanical garden.
>A friend had one pop out of his flower bed one day...two weeks later it was
>three feet tall!
>After a season he pulled the thing out 'cause it was likely to take over the
>front of the house.
>
>In general...trees which grow like weeds, growing several feet in the first
>growing year, are not good candidates for ornamental growing. They have soft
>wood and die off in a few years after producing a vast seed crop...then you
>have to dispose of the remains
>
>regards
>
>JK
>
As I understand it, Paulownia is a much valued timber tree,
particularly in the orient.
http://www.idrc.ca/library/document/071235/
I have a single tree here in Milwaukee, well into Zone 5. I have
never noticed any winterkill of the branches, only the flowerbuds.
Our coldest this past winter was not even -10F, so perhaps I will see
blooms this spring. I have not heard anything about Paulownia being
short-lived. In commercial production, they are harvested after
10-12 years and regrown from the stump.
--
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@wi.rr.com
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