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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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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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
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
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
Click here to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
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
Unisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed calyx
Petals absent
5 stamens
Superior ovary
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