Old Town - Imperial Chinese Tree

We can come across this foreign leafy exotic, which actually comes all the way from South-Eastern China, when going down the park from the Velká Morava Monument in the square of the same name in the Old Town. The imperial tree (pavlovnia plstnatá in Czech) began to be planted as an ornamental tree in the warmer regions of Europe, as it is an almost indomitable tree. Not only does it do nothing about polluted air, but it can…