Taxon: Torreya nucifera (L.) Siebold & Zucc.

Common names:

• Japanese torreya   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• Japanese-nutmeg   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• kaya   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• japansk torreya   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F NAmer)
  
• Human food: oil/fat   (edible seed fide F NAmer)
  
• Human food: seeds   (edible seed fide F NAmer)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea, South - Cheju

• also cultivated

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).
• Cope, E. A. 1998. Taxaceae: the genera and cultivated species. Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 64:316.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [mentions].
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. [with two var.].
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tai Hyun Chung. 1965. Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna & flora of Korea, vol. 5, Tracheophyta. [= T. nucifera Siebold & Zucc.].
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Torreya nucifera.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Torreya nucifera.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Torreya nucifera.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Taxus nucifera L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Tumion nuciferum (L.) Greene
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Torreya nucifera (L.) Siebold & Zucc.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• 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 Torreya nucifera 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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