FWD: EATING TREE LEAVES GEHP

[felger at CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU]

On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Gordon Ramel wrote:
> 
> This message is from CHRIS HERT <ch649 at aol.com>, a housewife from Ca.
> 
> I  have a tree recently planted called a 'sapphire dragon'.
> Its growing great, but i find green caterpillars  & tiny black dot size things on it- the leaves are getting eaten up terribl;y !  What can i do?  HELP !

I am replying to list to help with the plant.  I don't know what the
larvae are off-hand...

Sapphire dragon tree is most likely Paulownia tomentosa [= P. imperialis]
from China.  It is variously placed in the Scrophulariaceae (currently) or
Bignoniaceae (older texts). 

--MFW