Curious about blooming tree in Maryland
 

Can anyone help me identify a tree I saw recently while in Maryland in
early May. Understory-type tree, at the end of the branches it had cone-
shaped clusters of purple (lavender) tubular flowers. Leaves weren't really
too far out, and I never got close enough to identify their exact shape.
Seen it growing along the metro line between Baltimore and Hunt Valley. I
know it isn't dogwood, or wisteria growing in other trees (the only answers
the people I was with could give me).

Curious about blooming tree in Maryland
 

See the thread "Identification please". It's a paulownia.

Cheers,
Sue

Zone 6, Southcentral PA

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Zone 6, Southcentral PA
"Richard" wrote in message
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Can anyone help me identify a tree I saw recently while in Maryland in
early May. Understory-type tree, at the end of the branches it had cone-
shaped clusters of purple (lavender) tubular flowers. Leaves weren't
really
too far out, and I never got close enough to identify their exact shape.
Seen it growing along the metro line between Baltimore and Hunt Valley. I
know it isn't dogwood, or wisteria growing in other trees (the only
answers
the people I was with could give me).

Curious about blooming tree in Maryland
 

Its Paulownia tomentosa, the "Princess Tree".

You are only the third person to ask in this newsgroup.


Richard wrote in message
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Can anyone help me identify a tree I saw recently while in Maryland in
early May. Understory-type tree, at the end of the branches it had cone-
shaped clusters of purple (lavender) tubular flowers. Leaves weren't
really
too far out, and I never got close enough to identify their exact shape.
Seen it growing along the metro line between Baltimore and Hunt Valley. I
know it isn't dogwood, or wisteria growing in other trees (the only
answers
the people I was with could give me).

Curious about blooming tree in Maryland
 

"SugarChile" wrote in news:P_Cwa.70999
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See the thread "Identification please". It's a paulownia.

Cheers,
Sue

Zone 6, Southcentral PA


Thank you Sue, apparently we don't have those trees out here on the western
plains, yet - maybe it's too dry for them to get a good foothold or it gets
too hot in the summers or cold in the winters (I am just guessing) - or
maybe we just have too much sense to order from Michigan Bulb Company (this
I seriously doubt), but I know I'd recognize those purple flowers if I had
seen them before.

Richard (Nebraska zone 5)