| Scientific Name: | Paulownia tomentosa |
| Common Name: | princess tree, empress tree |
| Family Name: | Paulowniaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Palmate venation, Pubescent, Tomentose, Ovate, Dentate, Entire, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Yellow, Violet, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Jul-Aug, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves large, heart-shaped, most blades 12-25m long x 10-23cm wide, margins entire or occasionally 5 tooth or with shallow lobes (juvenile foliage), peach fuzz on underside, petioles up to 20cm long; bark has stretch marks; inflorescence panicle with large showy, violet-purple florets about 5 cm wide. Winter ID: flower buds large, fuzzy, in clusters; persistent brown, oval, pointed capsules about 3.5cm long x 2.5cm wide that partially split open in half. | |