NameThatPlant.net: Bischofia javanica

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

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bischofia javanica FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

COMMON NAME:
Japanese Bishopwood, Javawood, Toog, Uriam

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bischofia javanica FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bischofia javanica FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

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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.

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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