Tukli pavloniya
Paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa Thunb.), or Adam's Tree, is a genus of plants in the Paulownia family (Paulowniaceae). Paulownia — deciduous tall trees. The trunk is straight, the crown is spreading. The leaves are opposite, on long petioles. The leaf blade is large, deeply toothed or three-lobed. The edge of the sheet is solid. There are no stipules. The flowers are large, purple-lilac, sometimes almost white, in paniculate inflorescences at the ends of the shoots. The calyx is bell-shaped. The fruit is a box. The seeds are small, winged. It grows in the Far East and Southeast Asia: China, Korea, Taiwan, Laos, Vietnam. In gardens and parks in Europe and North America, Paulownia felted, or imperial is cultivated — a tree 20-25 m high with a wide crown and large whole-edged leaves on long petioles. The flowers are pale purple, in erect pyramidal inflorescences; flowering - before the appearance of leaves. The boxes are kept on the tree sometimes until next summer.
To the Tashkent Botanical Garden Paulownia tomentosa Thunb. seeds of the species were brought in and planted in nurseries in 2015 for the purpose of introduction. Germination from seeds was unub in April 2015, and young sprouts were transplanted to the East Asian exposition in spring 2016. Currently, the exposition is growing 2 adult trees of this species.
