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Toxicodendron vernicifluum (Chinese lacquer)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Toxicodendron vernicifluum (formerly Rhus verniciflua), also known by the common name Chinese lacquer tree, is an Asian tree species of genus Toxicodendron (formerly Rhus) native to China and the Indian subcontinent, and cultivated in regions of China, Korea and Japan. Other common names include Japanese lacquer tree, Japanese sumac, and varnish tree. The trees are cultivated and tapped for their toxic sap, which is used as a highly durable lacquer to make Chinese, Japanese, and Korean lacquerware.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [2]  0.408
Structure [1]  Tree

Predators

Ceroplastes pseudoceriferus (Indian wax scale)[3]
Rhinopithecus roxellana (Golden Snub-nosed Monkey)[4]
Saissetia coffeae (brown scale)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Chave 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.
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Seasonal Variation of Diet and Food Availability in a Group of Sichuan Snub-Nosed Monkeys in Shennongjia Nature Reserve, China; Li Yiming; American Journal of Primatology 68:217–233 (2006)
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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