Vernicia montana Lour.

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Vumba rd, nr Mountain Lodge

Synonyms:	Aleurites montana (Lour.) Wilson
Common names:	Chinese wood-oil tree (English)
Description:	Tree, to 15 m with crisped-ferrugineous indumentum. Leaves: petiole long, to 25 cm; lamina broadly ovate, entire to 3-lobed, with 2 turbinate glands at the base of the lamina and one in each of the sinuses of the lobes. Inflorescences usually unisexual, broadly corymbose. Flowers appearing with the leaves. Male flowers: petals 1.5-2.5 cm, clawed, white; staminal column to 2 cm. Female flowers similar to male but ovary densely ferrugineous-tomentose. Fruit c. 3.5 × 4 cm, ovoid-subspherical, apiculate, 3(-5)-ridged and laxly reticulate.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	montana: of mountainous areas (montane)
Flowering time:	Oct
Worldwide distribution:	Southern China, Burma, Indochina and Thailand
Growth form(s):	Tree.
Insects associated with this species:
Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Literature:	Biegel, H.M. (1977). Check-list of ornamental plants used in Rhodesian parks and gardens. Rhodesia Agricultural Journal. Research Report No. 3. Page 20. Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 301 - 303. (Includes a picture).

Flora of Burundi: Vernicia montana
Flora of Malawi: cultivated Vernicia montana
Flora of Zambia: cultivated Vernicia montana
Flora of Zimbabwe: Vernicia montana
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Vernicia montana

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Vernicia montana
African Plant Database: Vernicia montana
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Vernicia montana
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