Name that plant
Details:
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Date Photo Taken
06 / 23 / 2013
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Season Photo Was Taken
Summer
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Region Photo Was Taken
Southeast
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City
Murphy
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State
North Carolina
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Posted by
butlerr
Notes:
Traveled from Atlanta to Murphy NC to attend a family reunion and while there saw this wonderful tree, the tree is on a small mountain side and looks to have grape like clusters hanging. I was not able to get very close. A big thank you from New York.
Comments
Bobby Master Identifier says:
Re: Paulownia seed pods from Plant Files : On Jun 14, 2012, percent_one from Dobson, NC wrote: Let me tell you something that no one else has. During the second year, my Empress Tree formed flower buds on the ends of all it’s branches. Some 2 to 2 1/2 feet of flower buds. The flower buds are somewhat unattractive, but I guess some people would call them “winter interest” after the leaves fall in the autumn. In the Spring, the buds bloomed and, with the branches reaching towards the heavens, the tree truly looked like a Royal Empress. BUT, then the flowers faded and floated away and the seed pods began to grow. And grow. By June, I had 2 to 2 1/2 feet of large clustered seed pods (aka “shooter marbles”) on the ends of each branch. Read more: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/391/#ixzz2XKneziU7
June 26th, 2013 at 11:18am
stone Master Identifier says:
Catalpa?
June 26th, 2013 at 9:30am
rena sartain Unregistered says:
I have a house just outside of murphy = empress trees are not yet in pod. also – I would expect the leaves to be much larger.
June 25th, 2013 at 9:03pm
Bobby Master Identifier says:
Looks like the Paulownia seed pods. Google Empress tree.
June 25th, 2013 at 8:11pm