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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by olliej on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:48PM (#20595008)
They mention it’s “easy to regrow from the stump” what that means is cutting it down doesn’t kill it. Additionally many trees that easily regrow from a cut stump also regrow/produce new tree from their roots.

Seems like a recipe for an invasive plant (much like those awful pear trees the were used for landscaping)

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by olliej on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:02PM (#20597006)
After one research it seems like only one variant of Paulownia is "invasive" - as in super aggressively spreading, but it does make me wonder if have acres and acres filled with them will result in some mutant offspring developing the super aggressive spread that the species is clearly capable of. Very much like what happened with that invasive pear [1]

[1] I dug up the article https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-we-tur...

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by lostlogin on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:00PM (#20595622)
It also seems handy for growing timber. There seems to be a growing market for it too. https://thisnzlife.co.nz/how-a-small-waikato-farm-harnesses-...
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