A. Those lovely flowers belong to the Royal Paulownia tree, sometimes called princess tree or empress tree. Known botanically as Paulownia tomentosa, this species is native to China but the large, ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Paulownia tomentosa has had marvelous press on the Internet. Several ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Royal Paulownia is a native of China where it is revered as a tree and loved ...

Practice sustainable lumber production with a beneficial but risky resource, paulownia trees, as a viable solution for reforestation. The Paulownia tree also offers a host of benefits that should not ...

One of the trees that brings me questions every year is one that has some extremely positive and extremely negative points. It's the royal paulownia, also known as the empress tree. The royal ...

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — 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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As soon as the British drought began to unwind, gardeners were hit with a ban on hosepipes. Why is there not a ...