Native to Asia — especially China — it can reach growth of over 6 feet per year in optimal conditions and easily surpass 50 ...

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Areader from the San Luis Obispo area sent me a colorful advertisement that proclaimed, "The Royal Empress Zooms To A Flowering, Scented, Shade Tree In Just One Season!!!" and asked whether the "Royal ...

One day I observed fresh stumps of Paulownia tomentosa (commonly known as Princess Tree) along a roadway. I knew why the trees had been cut down: they’re from Asia. Current dogma (a set of beliefs ...

A botanical mystery has been stirring through local social media the last couple of weeks as posters ponder about that big tree with the purple flowers. Colonies of trees with large spikes of lavender ...

I'd like to add a few new trees along the front of my front yard. I've run across a tree called the "empress tree" that sounds nice. Do you have any thoughts on these? One concern I have is whether ...

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) — Although I haven't seen a paulownia for years, I vividly remember one that bordered a path along which I used to jog when I lived further south, in Maryland. The tree caught my ...

MANCHESTER — Ed Holt spends hours in light planes and helicopters and driving along back roads, searching wooded areas all over the eastern United States for the elusive wild royal paulownia. In the ...