Korean Paulownia
Paulownia coreana · Paulowniaceae · 오동나무
How to spot it
Similar in appearance to Paulownia tomentosa, but with brown hairs on the leaf underside and without the lengthwise purple lines (dotted lines) in the corolla.
Look
- Leaves
- Large leaves (15-23 cm long, 12-29 cm wide), egg-shaped-round but often pentagonal, with brown stellate hairs beneath and no teeth on the margin (leaves on sprouts have teeth).
- Flowers
- In May-June, purple flowers 6 cm long open in panicles at the branch tips; the throat is yellow.
- Fruit
- An egg-shaped capsule with a pointed tip, about 3 cm long, ripening in October-November.
- Bark
- Bark is light brown with rough dark-brown lines running lengthwise.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- Native to warm places in Korea south of the central region.
- Ecology
- An extremely sun-loving tree that grows well in fertile, well-drained sandy loam in valleys or lowlands. Strong against salt wind, pollution and pests, weak against drought.