Taxon: Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw

• the 44 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• Chinese wood-oil-tree   (Source: Blumea 44:92. 1999) – English
  
• tung-oil-tree   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• tung yu   (Source: Blumea 44:92. 1999) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• you tong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• chineesche olieboom   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Dutch
  
• arbre à l'huile de tung   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 14:142.) – French
  
• noix d'abrasin   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• gewöhnlicher Tungölbaum   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Holzölbaum   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Tungölbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• tung-yu   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 14:142.) – Malay
  
• árvore-de-óleo-da-china   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Aleurites fordii]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• tungue   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Aleurites fordii]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• aleurita   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
  
• tungträd   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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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

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Vietnam [n.]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi
  Southern Africa: South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Georgia
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Vietnam
  Malesia: Malaysia
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay

References:

• Airy Shaw, H. K. 1972. The Euphorbiaceae of Siam. Kew Bull. 26:350. [mentions].
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Nogueira, J. B. & R. D. Machado. 1957. Glosario de plantas oleaginosas e ceriferas. II. Euforbiaceas. [= Aleurites fordii].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radcliffe-Smith, A. 1973. Typification of Vernicia fordii (Euphorbiaceae). Kew Bull. 28:296.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Schultes, R. E. 1987. The Euphorbiales. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 80.
• 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.
• Vossen, H. A. M. van der & B. E. Umali, eds. 2001. Vegetable oils and fats. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 14:142–146.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Vernicia fordii.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Aleurites fordii Hemsl. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 43 accessions)

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

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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