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Plant inventory; plant material introducedYear:
1897 (
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Agricultural Research Center-West (U.S.). Northeastern Region Agricultural Research Center (Beltsville, Md.) United States. Agricultural Research Service. Horticultural Crops Research BranchSubjects: Publisher:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:r, 1922. Quoted notes by F. A. McClure. of the Canton ChristianCollege. The Canton Christian College introduction numbers are in parentheses.Native names romanized from the Cantonese dialect. 55647 to 55650. Aleukites Montana (Lour.) Wilson. Euphorbiaceae. Mu-oil tree. This is the mu-uu shu (literally, wood-oil tree I of southern China.It is less hardy than the rung-oil tree. Alcurites fordii. and 2-year-oldspecimens growing at Tallahassee. Fla.. were killed by cold in February.1917. The oil is practically identical with tung oil. The fruit differsfrom that of A. fordii in having an irregularly ridged surface whenmature and the young leaves in being much more deeply lobed than thoseof that species. I R. A. Young.) 55647. •■ Shek Lut. or Tung Yau Tzz. Secured in the autumn of 1921through Rev. F. Fritz, from Moilim. northeastern Kw 55648. (No. 785.) 55650. -(No. 7S9.V 55649. (No. TSS.r For an illustration of the young tree, see Plate I. Inventory 72, Seeds and Plants Imported. PlateText Appearing After Image:A Young Specimen of the Mu-yu Shu,Montana (Lour.) Wilson; S. P. or Mu-oil Tree. (Aleurites, Nos. 55647 TO 55650.) Mu oil, yielded by the seeds of Aleurites montana, is practically identical in character with tungoil, obtained from A. fordii Hemsl. It is a valuable drying oil, used in the varnish, paint,and many other industries. The mu-oil tree is less resistant to frost than the tung-oil tree,and the specimen here shown, grown at the Live Oak Plantation, Tallahassee, Fla., waskilled by the freeze of February, 1917. The leaves of young trees of this species are muchmore deeply lobed than those of the tung-oil tree (Photographed by R. A. Young, Talla-hassee, Fla., August 11, 1916; P19856FS.) Inventory 72, Seeds and Plants Imported. Plate II,Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
