It was once the same story for a lush willow and a sprawling Chinese empress tree.

It boasts one of the largest Chinese Empress trees in Canada.

The south end of the field would grow even more brilliant, judging from the presence of young empress trees, their leaves already eight inches broad.

In China, an old custom is to plant an Empress Tree when a baby girl is born.

In legend, it is said that the phoenix will only land on the Empress Tree and only when a good ruler is in power.

Paulownia tomentosa, the empress tree, a scraggly thing that looks as if it were masquerading as wisteria without any leaves.

A. The paulownia, or Chinese empress tree (Paulownia tomentosa), has its fans and its foes.

As for the empress trees, there's a beauty blooming in the southwest corner of the park, near the Columbus Circle entrance, and another by Cherry Hill.

Here, the curious can see dawn redwoods blushing pink in their new foliage, gape at towering purple-flowered empress trees, or stroll beneath fern-leaved ginkgos.

All that remains of the garden is a single Chinese empress tree, a few transplanted black raspberry bushes and, in his kitchen, some dried basil he uses to season his stew.

The common name of Paulownia tomentosa is Royal Paulownia,(also known as Empress Tree, Princess Tree, and Foxglove Tree.

In a case that the police describe as unusual even by New York standards, the trees, a k a empress trees, were removed on three dates, apparently with chainsaws, a winch and a truck.

Paulownia tomentosa (common names empress tree, princess tree or foxglove tree) is a deciduous tree in the family Paulowniaceae, native to central and western China, but invasive in the USA.

Of particular interest are the hardy orange poncirus trifoliata, the needle palms, and the empress tree Paulownia tomentosa that can be found growing outside with no additional winter protection in "the Quad" area of the campus.

The gardens contained many exotic species, including the empress tree from China and Japan Jefferson also had flowers from nurseries sent to him up the James and Rivanna rivers to a town near Monticello.

Commonly called the Chinese empress tree, princess tree or kiri tree, paulownia can also be grown as a yard tree, if pruned at about four feet to allow a few lateral branches to curve out from the main trunk.

Adam Purple, a squatter who liked to say he was from another planet, turned five garbage-filled lots into a garden of concentric circles that had everything from blackberries and 45 fruit trees to corn and a rare Chinese empress tree.

In bloom: daffodils, Japanese flowering cherry trees, magnolia, katsura tree, trillium, winterhazel, candytuft, mahonia, empress tree, skimmia, amelanchier, Harry Lauder's walking stick, lesser celandine, bergenia, lenten rose, pulmonaria, Manchurian apricot, PJM rhododendron.

He did not have to turn around to recognize Kiri's voice.

Later, in the fighting for the capital, Kiri's husband had been killed.

Kiri was sure she could keep the deception a secret for at least three days.

Thanks to Kiri being able to cut her hair, she finally manages to get to school and talk normally with others.

Am I to go alone with Kiri, or is my husband going also?

The girl's hair fell below her waist, Kiri's was longer.

In the afternoon, accompanied by Kiri and a guard, we went off to explore.

Her mother agrees, but because the opening's only for a male model, Kiri would have to pose as a boy.

Dame Kiri has a true ear for the oral tradition.

The less those devils know, the better, Kiri thought.

He was survived by his wife, Kiri, and his children.

He had seen Kiri arrive and strutted back through the gate.

Kiri's parents died in a fire, so she lives currently lives with her grandmother.

Kiri says, 'What you have to remember is to give quality, not quantity.'

Kiri's Brother makes an appearance in the last episode.

In the last episode, she is seen alive and well in a hospital talking with Kiri.

Kiri's mother is a famous special effects make-up artist in Hollywood.

They led him to another room where Kiri and Mariko were.

He saw Kiri come out into the forecourt below.

Most of Kiri's admirers are girls, which just complicate matters more.

He chases after her and even has Kiri's picture as his cell phone's wallpaper.

Lyar and Kiri are in the core, apparently searching for something.

During high school, he was good friends with Kiri and Yanagi.

Far from being a drawback, Kiri's privacy is an advantage."

Dame Kiri's schedule for the immediate future is full enough for her.

However, she said she believed these particular trees - the paulownia tomentosa - to be "sort of a terrible tree, a weed really."

As with other kotos, The kiri wood (paulownia tomentosa) is molded and treated.

The larvae bore in Fraxinus species and Paulownia tomentosa.

Its body is a slender, slightly curved plank carved from kiri (Paulownia tomentosa) wood.

The big tree with huge leaves is Paulownia tomentosa which grows about 15ft (4.5m) tall and produces foxglove-like flowers when well-established.

A. You are describing Paulownia tomentosa, commonly called princess tree or royal paulownia.

Princess tree (Paulownia tomentosa)

Paulownia tomentosa (I)

Four large trees known as Paulownia tomentosa mysteriously vanished one night from Inwood Hill Park.

A. The paulownia, or Chinese empress tree (Paulownia tomentosa), has its fans and its foes.

Paulownia coreana (Paulownia tomentosa var.

Mr. Sundue said it might be Paulownia tomentosa, which is native to Eastern Asia and thrives in sunny, disturbed places.

Seven Japanese-style rooms are composed of various woods such as Paulownia tomentosa, rosewood, Chamaecyparis obtusa, maple and pseudocydonia.

Because of the leaves, they are sometimes confused with the tung tree (Vernicia fordii) in the southern U.S., or the invasive Paulownia tomentosa imported from China.

Bass Koto is similarly made from the paulownia tomentosa (kiri) wood but the thickness of the wood so taken is approximately twice than that of a single koto.

The common name of Paulownia tomentosa is Royal Paulownia,(also known as Empress Tree, Princess Tree, and Foxglove Tree.

Species Profile- Princess Tree (Paulownia tomentosa), National Invasive Species Information Center, United States National Agricultural Library.

As the four accent Japanese Musa basjoo bananas shed their protective covers, the palms, the pollarded eucalyptus and foxglove tree Paulownia tomentosa, plus the blue-green Kashmir cypress, take centre stage.

Of particular interest are the hardy orange poncirus trifoliata, the needle palms, and the empress tree Paulownia tomentosa that can be found growing outside with no additional winter protection in "the Quad" area of the campus.

The Ho-an-den should be equipped with a safe-type door, and the interior should be resistant to fire and earthquake, with asbestos, and covered inside with wood such as Chamaecyparis obtusa or Paulownia tomentosa.

The leaves are very similar in shape to those of Paulownia tomentosa, having three lobes (two are abruptly truncated on either edge, with a third, central, slightly acute, pointed lobe forming the leaf apex), and are darkly green.

In North America, such species include trees such as Ailanthus altissima, Paulownia tomentosa, Siberian Elm, and Norway Maple, and invasive non-woody plants such as Japanese Knotweed and Phragmites.

A call to the Clemson Botanical Gardens about this tree revealed that it was in fact a Royal Paulownia Tree (Paulownia tomentosa), an invasive tree that made its way from its native habitat in China.

The city's largest park, the Garden of Rome, features some rare trees that are uncommon to the area, including Styphnolobium japonicum, native to East Asia (especially China); Pterocarya, also native to Asia; and Paulownia tomentosa, native to central and western China.