Last week I brought up the tree Paulownia and it was labled invasive and
called a pest tree.
As a member of the American Paulownia Association I raised the issue to
compare it to Kudzu.
Here is a reply by one member that I thought I would pass along
regards david d.
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I made a car trip to Southern Illinois during June. Took the back roads
for several hundred miles. A college buddy was with me and has always
been interested in my trees. But living in the Buckhead section of
Atlanta does not allow him much room for a paulownia farm. Since he is
fortunate enough to have a very large place, (six acres) I gave him six
trees this summer to ease his pain. We both looked for wild paulownia
along rural roads in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennesse, and Illinois. Guess
what, the score was: One under an old tractor shed in Kentucky and one
close to the Jefferson Davis Monument in Kentucky. (Duplicate of the
George Washington in D.C. except one cubic foot bigger! Out in the
sticks... At his true birth place. As you know, his family moved to
Mississippi during his infancy. What a site!) Now here is the real
kicker. One by a mail box behind the McDonald's in Buckhead, one
growing out of a concrete crack under I-75 at the Buckhead exit, and six
in my friends back yard. So there you have it. After riding over 600
miles, Upscale Atlanta wins! Kudzu my eye...
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