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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   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Bischofia javanica, Japanese Bishopwood, Javawood, Toog, Uriam

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www.invasive.org/browse/subject.cfm?sub=5188

image of Bischofia javanica, Japanese Bishopwood, Javawood, Toog, Uriam

Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org    bug_1461078

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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).

image of Bischofia javanica, Japanese Bishopwood, Javawood, Toog, Uriam

Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org    bug_5419067

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image of Bischofia javanica, Japanese Bishopwood, Javawood, Toog, Uriam

Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org    bug_5419068

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Leaflets elliptical to ovate, apex acuminate, margin finely crenate, per World Agroforestry Centre.


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound

image of Bischofia javanica, Japanese Bishopwood, Javawood, Toog, Uriam

Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org    bug_5419069

Month Unknown        

Trees to 40m tall; stem straight, branching lower; bark gray-brown to brown, per Flora of China.

image of Bischofia javanica, Japanese Bishopwood, Javawood, Toog, Uriam

Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org    bug_5419070

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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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Invasive?

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

 

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