Taxon: Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw

Common names:

• árvore-de-óleo-da-china   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Aleurites fordii)
  
• Chinese wood-oil-tree   (Source: Blumea 44:92. 1999)
  
• hsiao t'ung shu   (Source: Blumea 44:92. 1999)
  
• t'ung shu   (Source: Blumea 44:92. 1999)
  
• t'ung yu   (Source: Blumea 44:92. 1999)
  
• tung yan shu   (Source: Blumea 44:92. 1999)
  
• Tungölbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• tung-oil-tree   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• tungue   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Aleurites fordii)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Materials: lipids   (source of tung oil with several applications fide Bot J Linn Soc 94:314. 1987, as Aleurites fordii)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury, as Aleurites fordii; Lampe & McCann, as A. fordii; Econ Pl Aust, as Aleurites fordii)
  

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View toxicology references for Vernicia fordii from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [s.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Vietnam [n.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]

Other:

• cultivated in tropics & subtropics

References:

• Airy Shaw, H. K. 1972. The Euphorbiaceae of Siam. Kew Bull. 26:350. [mentions].
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae. (L Euphorb)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Nogueira, J. B. & R. D. Machado. 1957. Glosario de plantas oleaginosas e ceriferas. II. Euforbiaceas. (L Pl OleaCer) [= Aleurites fordii].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Schultes, R. E. 1987. The Euphorbiales. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 80.
• Smith, A. R. 1973. Kew Bull. 28:296.
• Stuppy, W. et al. 1999. Revision of the genera Aleurites, Reutealis and Vernicia (Euphorbiaceae). Blumea 44:91–92.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vernicia fordii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Vernicia fordii. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Aleurites fordii Hemsl. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 38 accessions)

Check other databases for Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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