Thread: ~2000 Paulownia seeds for $10.00
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Default ~2000 Paulownia seeds for $10.00
Andy Dingley wrote:
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:09:34 -0500, "J. Clarke"
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Not to be siding with a spammer but it's apparently traditional for
some applications in Japan.

Not AFAIK, but it's the closest Western substitute for the
traditional
timber. This is one of the reasons why I wanted to grow Paulownia.

Paulownia isn't "western". It's native to Asia including Japan.

Here's a research paper from Japan on the subject:
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/...4_361/_article

Unfortunately, everything but the abstract is in Japanese.

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