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Re: [SG] Chinese Empress tree

Betty Moorman@ZEON
04/29/98 08:28 AM

We have loads of paulownia trees in our neighborhood.  We live near a
railroad track and one neighbor believes the Chinese who laid the track
probably scattered the seeds (inadvertently or otherwise, who knows?) .
They are blooming now and are quite showy.  Please do not give this info to
anyone who is in the lumber business.  Not that you know where I live, but
some of the neighbors would become irate if they thought there was a danger
the trees  would be cut down.  One time about 10-15 years ago the
paulownias in the area were extensively lumbered.  I have heard them called
"trash wood" because they grow quickly and their wood is soft, but I hear
the Japanese prize the wood.
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