Toyzbox
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Another tree ID please

I live in NW FL. I got this tree as a gift but have no idea what it is. Any gueses? Thanks


https://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2790/tree1up.jpg
https://img834.imageshack.us/img834/545/tree2.jpg

thanrose
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Looks like a Royal Pauwlonia, Pauwlonia tomentosa. Tree is right. It will not be a potted plant for long. The juvenile plant's leaves are huge.

Toyzbox
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So, "thanrose" Lowes thinks this is a sycamore tree. You disagree???

thanrose wrote:Looks like a Royal Pauwlonia, Pauwlonia tomentosa. Tree is right. It will not be a potted plant for long. The juvenile plant's leaves are huge.

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Here is a photo album by a photographer, showing many views of sycamore trees and their leaves:

https://www.pbase.com/hjsteed/foliage_sycamore

Note the leaf shapes vs. the leaf shape of the plant you have purchased.

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BewilderedGreenyO.o
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Royal Paulownia

[img]https://I.pbase.com/g4/54/616454/2/61834325.GmRUHXGW.jpg[/img]

Your Tree

[img]https://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2790/tree1up.jpg[/img]

I think it is pretty safe to say that you've got a Royal Paulownia there :) Definitely Doesn't resemble a Sycamore

Sycamore

[img]https://ic2.pbase.com/v3/26/411626/2/50637599.0510100011.jpg[/img]

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microcollie
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I agree that it's not a sycamore, but it looks a little like the juvenile foliage of a liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree).

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Sorta late getting in on this posting. I think you will find it is a Sapphire Dragon (form of Royal Pauwlonia) It will grow up to 20 feet tall and have beautiful
blue blooms.



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