On 14 May 2003 14:22:28 GMT, (Bill Spohn) wrote:

Is this the one in the Sunday newspaper magazines that grow really, really
fast? They make them sound like some miracle tree?

They look nice in spring, and do grow like weeds. There is a lumber industry in
the Southeast for them, though I don't think I've ever seen anything made from
Paulownia wood (one assumes a softwood).


Actually, it 's a hardwood. I have had mine from a whip for two seasons now and
it's well over 12 feet tall. It hasn't bloomed yet, but probably next year. I
don't have the noxious P.tomentosa. I have Paulownia kavakamii.