If you're trying to do carbon capture, maybe this is a feature? Assume you mean that literally, and you can just chop one down and another will grow in its place, that's pretty great, since trees only capture carbon when they are growing.
And yeah, this is actually a huge bonus for carbon capture!
You need to store wood long-term somehow. Or burn it and store CO2 underground, turning it into rock.
http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/paulownia-princess-tree-on...
I reread the article and I see no mention of it?
http://www.tsusinvasives.org/home/database/paulownia-tomento...
>...its ability to sprout prolifically from adventitious buds on stems and roots allows it to survive fire, cutting and even bulldozing in construction areas; making it difficult to remove from established areas.
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> Cutting or girdling trees with power or manual saws are effective at preventing seed production, but an herbicide treatment is necessary following cutting since Paulownia readily re-sprouts. Hand pulling may be effective for young seedlings. Plants should be pulled as soon as they are large enough to grasp. Seedlings are best pulled after a rain when the soil is loose. The entire root must be removed since broken fragments may re-sprout. Cutting or pulling is the preferred mechanical treatments of the Paulownia tormentosa; do not use fire because this species is able to survive fire and then quickly proliferates and out-competes native tree species post-fire.
Seems like a recipe for an invasive plant (much like those awful pear trees the were used for landscaping)
[1] I dug up the article https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-we-tur...
> "After the first year of growth, trees are cut down to the stump, the rest sold for timber. This process, called coppicing, promotes bigger and straighter growth the following year."