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§1 Plant

Triadica sebifera (L.) Small

vernacular Chinese tallow — species · Euphorbiaceae


USDA
TRSE6
GBIF
3054399
Rank
species
Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera)
Platephotograph · J. Richard AbbottCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Euphorbiaceae Juss.
Genus
Triadica
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 178 counties across 10 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 178 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 178 counties across 10 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 14 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 9 I
California view state ↗ 2 I
Florida view state ↗ 22 I
Georgia view state ↗ 8 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 58 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 16 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 I
Texas view state ↗ 42 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/TRSE6 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3054399 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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