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Liquidambar formosana (Chinese Sweet Gum)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Acer tutcheri (Tutcher's maple) is a species of deciduous maple tree native to the Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, south Hunan, south Jiangxi, Taiwan and south Zhejiang provinces of southern China including certain districts of Hong Kong. Acer tutcheri is found in forests between 300 and 1000 metres of altitude. It is a tree up to 15 metres tall, with brown bark. The leaves are up to 9 cm long and 13 cm across, with three or occasionally five lobes. They are deciduous, hairless, thin and papery, and have teeth along the edges.
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Attributes

Specific Gravity [1]  0.489

Predators

Lopholeucaspis japonica (Japanese maple scale)[2]
Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli (false oleander scale)[2]

External References

Citations

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1Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0