Triadica sebifera(L.) Small

Chinese Tallow

WFO wfo-0000327067 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Triadica sebifera, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. a Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 201181586
Triadica sebifera, photographed by natalie
fig. b natalie, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203949602
Triadica sebifera, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. c Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201466058
Triadica sebifera, photographed by 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)
fig. d 胡正恆(Jackson Hu), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202126722
Triadica sebifera, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. e Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201446997
Triadica sebifera, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. f Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200401531
Triadica sebifera, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. g Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199824775
Triadica sebifera, photographed by 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN
fig. h 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199254437

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Flowering n = 1,358 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,358 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Carumbium sebiferum (L.) Kurz
  • Croton macrocarpus Rchb. ex Müll.Arg.
  • Croton sebifer L.
  • Excoecaria sebifera (L.) Müll.Arg.
  • Sapium chihsinianum S.K.Lee
  • Sapium pleiocarpum Y.C.Tseng
  • Sapium sebiferum (L.) Dum.Cours.
  • Sapium sebiferum var. cordatum S.Y.Wang
  • Sapium sebiferum var. dabeshanense B.C.Ding & T.B.Chao
  • Sapium sebiferum var. multiracemosum B.C.Ding ex S.Y.Wang & T.B.Chao
  • Sapium sebiferum var. pendulum B.C.Ding & T.B.Chao
  • Seborium chinense Raf.
  • Seborium sebiferum (L.) Hurus.
  • Stillingfleetia sebifera (L.) Bojer
  • Stillingia sebifera (L.) Michx.
  • Stillingia sinensis Müll.Arg.
  • Stillingia sinensis (Lour.) Baill.
  • Triadica chinensis Spreng.
  • Triadica sinensis Lour.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.