Taxon: Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco

Common names:

• Chinese thuja   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Chinese-arborvitae   (Source: Websters Dict [as Thuja orientalis]) – English
  
• Oriental-arborvitae   (Source: Websters Dict [as Thuja orientalis]) – English
  
• ce bai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• tuia orientale   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• cheugbaegnamu   (Source: F Korea [as Thuja orientalis]) – Transcribed Korean
  
• orientalisk tuja   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; F NAmer; Monog Cupressaceae)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Monog Cupressaceae)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Gansu [s.], Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi
  Eastern Asia: Korea

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [natzd. elsewhere in China]

• also cultivated

• exact native range uncertain

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [mentions].
• Farjon, A. 2005. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. 417–419.
• Forest Experimental Station, Korea. 1966. Illustrated woody plants of Korea. [= Thuja orientalis L.].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Krüssmann, G. 1985. Manual of cultivated conifers (English translation of Die Nadelgeholze, ed. 2. 1983). [= Thuja orientalis L.].
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea. [= Thuja orientalis L.].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Ouden, P. den & B. K. Boom. 1965. Manual of cultivated conifers. [= Thuja orientalis L.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:169.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. [= Thuja orientalis L.].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [= Thuja orientalis].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Platycladus orientalis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Platycladus orientalis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Platycladus orientalis.

Synonyms:

• (=) Retinispora juniperoides Carrière
  
• (≡) Thuja orientalis L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 19 accessions)
• (=) Thuja orientalis var. aurea (Carrière) Rehder
  
• (=) Thuja orientalis f. juniperoides (Carrière) Asch. & Graebn.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Platycladus orientalis cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Embryo with female gametophyte: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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