| Author | (Hemsley) Airy Shaw | |
| Distribution | A single collection away from cultivation: Craven County, shore of Neuse River, E of New Bern, in 1971, by L.A. Whitford (specimen at NCSC). Specimens from Carteret, Columbus, and Cumberland counties are all from cultivated plants. Also reported naturalized in Wayne County by A.J. Bullard (fide Weakley 2018), probably post-2000.
Native of southeastern Asia; in N.A. on the Coastal Plain from NC to FL, TX, and AR. | |
| Abundance | Very rare. | |
| Habitat | Shore of river. | |
| Phenology | Flowering March-April; fruiting May-August. | |
| Identification | Tung-oil Tree is a small tree up to roughly 30 feet. Leaves are alternate, long-stalked, broadly ovate, 4-10 inches long, sometimes shallowly 3-lobed, both surfaces moderately to sparsely hairy. Inflorescences are broad panicles of showy white or pink flowers with red veins. Fruits are rather globular capsules, dark brown. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | A synonym is Aleurites fordii.
| |
| Other Common Name(s) | | |
| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
| State Status | | |
| US Status | | |
| USACE-agcp | | |
| USACE-emp | | |
