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Toxicodendron vernicifluum
Poisonous — do not eat it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
About
Toxicodendron vernicifluum, also known by the common name Chinese lacquer tree, is an Asian tree species of genus Toxicodendron native to China and the Indian subcontinent, and cultivated in regions of China, Japan and Korea. Other common names include poison sumac, Japanese lacquer tree, Japanese sumac, and varnish tree. The trees are cultivated and tapped for their toxic sap, which is used as a highly durable lacquer to make Chinese, Japanese, and Korean lacquerware.
- Family
- Anacardiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Toxicodendron vernicifluum
- Slug
- toxicodendron-vernicifluum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Anacardiaceae
- Genus
- Toxicodendron
- Species
- vernicifluum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 3
- Data completeness
- 43
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