Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bischofia javanica
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bischofia javanica
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bischofia javanica
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12 (2016)
Bischofia javanica
COMMON NAME:
Japanese Bishopwood, Javawood, Toog, Uriam
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On female plants, pea-sized fruits hang in grapelike clusters, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2007).
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Leaflets elliptical to ovate, apex acuminate, margin finely crenate, per World Agroforestry Centre.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
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Trees to 40m tall; stem straight, branching lower; bark gray-brown to brown, per Flora of China.
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bischofia javanica
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bischofia javanica
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bischofia javanica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12
Bischofia javanica
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Tree
Perennial
Dioecious
Habitat: hammocks, marl prairies, Florida scrub, shell mounds, floodplain forests, pine rocklands, coastal strands, and disturbed uplands, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: east & southeast Asia
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This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has red latex (milky sap)
LEAVES:
Evergreen (deciduous in times of drought)
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate, spirally arranged
Leaves have long petioles.
Petiolule of center leaflet much longer than those of lateral leaflets.
Stipules soon deciduous.
FLOWER:
Spring
Greenish
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed calyx
Petals absent
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Unisexual
Flowers in axillary clusters
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Light reddish-brown
Drupe
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2007) p049
- Invasive Plants, Weeds of the Global Garden (Randall & Marinelli, 1996) p28
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