My neighbor wanted me to come over and identify a tree for them. I work at a nursery so they thought I would know it but I had no clue as to what it was. I will work on getting a picture of it but for now I will describe it.

The tree was about 20' tall and they said that it was 3-4 years old. They got it from a friend. The tree was mailed to them from Thailand and they said that it is a native tree there. It is supposedly (and I think so too) a very rapid grower. It had about 8-10" of new growth on it already! The twigs were dark, dark red colored almost brown with white lenticels on them and had hollow piths. I cannot remember the arrangement of leaves because I am at work now. The leaves were chordate in shape I believe and had entire margins. The leaves were also very furry. The flowers were pinkish, trumpet shaped that faced upwards kind of on a spike. The leaves were also very large already...about the size of my palm and they said when fully grown the leaves get to be about frisbee width if not larger.

Any help would be appreciated. I already looked at websites trying to ID this thing but have found nothing close.