毛泡桐Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Steud.

别名：马蹄郎;泡桐花;泡桐果;空桐木;华东泡桐;光泡桐;冈桐;大叶泡;籽桐;紫花树;紫花桐;紫桐;锈毛泡桐;泡桐树;泡桐叶;白桐叶;桐;绣毛泡桐;白桐;泡桐子;小花泡桐;梧桐;桐子树;桐叶;空桐;紫花泡桐;水桐;绒叶泡桐;绒毛泡桐;泡桐皮;日本泡桐;桐木树;泡桐;princesstree;

科名：玄参科 Scrophulariaceae

属名：泡桐属 Paulownia

《中国植物志》第67(2)卷033页
  1.毛泡桐（东北木本植物图志）图10
  Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 2: 278. 1841; 东北木本植物图志492.图版157: 393. 1955; S. Y. Hu, 1. c. 37. 1959; 中国高等植物图鉴4: 12. 图5437. 1975. ——Bignonia tomentosa Thunb. Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal. 4: 35. 39. 1783. ——Incarvillea tomentosa (Thunb.) Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2: 836. 1825. ——Paulownia imperialis Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. 1: 27. t. 10. 1835. ——P. grandifolia Hort. ex Wettst. in Pflanzenf. IV. 35: 67. 1891. in obs. ——P. imperialis var. lanata Dode Bull. Soc. Dendr. France 160. 1908.——P. tomentosa var. lanata (Dode) Schneid. Ill. Handb. Laubh. 2: 618. 1911. ——P. recurva Rehd. in Sarg. Pl. Wils. 1: 577. 1913. ——P. tomentosa var. japonica Elwes, Gard. Chron. Ser. III. 69: 273. 1921.
形态特征：落叶乔木，高可达20米。幼枝、幼果密被粘质短腺毛，叶柄及叶下面较少。树皮暗灰色，不规则纵裂，枝上皮孔明显。叶对生，具长柄，心形，长15—40厘米，全缘或波状浅裂，上面疏被星状毛，下面密被灰黄色星状绒毛，毛有长柄。聚伞圆锥花序的侧枝不很发达，小聚伞花序有花3—5朵
用    途：木材纹理直，结构均匀，不翘不裂，易于加工，甚轻，隔潮性和隔烟性好，耐腐性强，是优良的家具用材，声学性好，耐腐性强，是优良的家具用材；声学性好，其鸣性强，是良好的乐器用材；还可制各种工艺品。木材又含丰富的纤维素，材色较浅，是造纸的好原料，也是人造板的好材料
分    布：产神农架各地，以泮水河一带较多。
生    境：生于海拔1900米以下山坡下部和沟谷灌木丛中或疏术中，或栽培于村庄、耕地边。
繁殖方式：埋根或播根繁殖。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 18 (1998)
Paulownia tomentosa  (Thunberg) Steudel
毛泡桐   mao pao tong
Trees, to 20 m tall; crown broad, umbelliform. Bark brown-gray. Twigs conspicuously lenticellate, viscid glandular when young. Leaf blade cordate, ca. 40 cm, abaxially densely to sparsely hairy, adaxially sparsely hairy, apex acute. Thyrses pyramidal to narrowly conical, to 50 cm; cymes 3- or 4-flowered; peduncle 1-2 cm, nearly as long as pedicels. Calyx shallowly campanulate, ca. 1.5 cm, outside tomentose; lobes to 1/2 or more calyx length, ovate-oblong. Corolla purple, funnelform-campanulate, 5-7.5 cm, ridged ventrally, outside glandular, inside glabrous; limb ca. 4.5 cm in diam. Stamens to 2.5 cm. Ovary ovoid, glandular. Style shorter than stamens. Capsule ovoid, 3-4.5 cm, densely viscid-glandular hairy; pericarp ca. 1 mm; persistent calyx lobes flat. Seeds 2.5-4 mm including wing. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Sep.
* Cultivated or wild; below 1800 m. Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, S Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, N Sichuan [cultivated in North America, Europe, Japan, and Korea].