![]() ![]() She, in that limited gene-pool Euro-royal way, became Queen consort of the Netherlands, and her name was transliterated into the Dutch: Anna Paulowna. Though Asian, it was named in the West after Anna Pavlovna, one of the daughters of Russian Tsar Paul I. Paulownia tormentosa - also known as the Princess Tree, the kiri, and the Empress Tree - is a native of East Asia. So it’s a bit of a surprise to come across these blooming trees in spring, with their large, trumpet-shaped violet flowers. The Canal, a Superfund site running up into the soft underbelly of western Brooklyn, is surrounded by a largely de-industrialized zone of former warehouses and factories, industrial parking lots, and a buried fuel depot. Today, there are Paulownia trees growing on both ends of the Union Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal. Well, as early as 1672, a couple dozen European plants were already growing spontaneously in New England… “It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how”… it got that way. ![]()
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