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Family: Euphorbiaceae	Genus: Triadica	Species: Triadica sebifera (Linn.) Small

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Sapium sebiferum (Linn) Dum Cours.,Croton sebiferum Linn, Saborium chinense Raf.	Flower Color	Greenish
Common Name	Chicken Tree, Chinese tallow tree, Florida aspen, Gray Popcorn Tree	Flower Type	Spikelet
English / Trade Name	Chinese tallow tree	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name		Fruiting Period	Jan-Dec
Altitude	Upto 1600m	Fruit Type	Capsule
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruits three-lobed, three-valved capsules. As the capsules mature, their color changes from green to a brown-black.. Seeds usually hang on the plants for several weeks.
Habitat	Invades grassland communities and is especially successful in coastal prairies	Bark Type	Rugged
Distribution	China, Japan , United States, Puerto Rico ,Costa Rica,Taiwan, India, Martinique, Sudan, and France.	Bark Details	Trunks may be gnarled with fissured bark that thickens as the tree grows
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Butterfly Park , Sukhna Choe Reserve Forest & Sukhna Lake , Sector 27, Sector 28	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Tree up to 15 m. Leaves simple, deciduous, alternate, broad rhombic to ovate in shape with smooth edges, heart shaped, bright green in color. Male and female flowers on the same plant. At bloom it produces clusters of greenish-yellow and white flowers. The flowers occur in spike-like inflorescences light green in color, female flower is solitary and male flowers occur in clusters at the upper nodes of the inflorescence. Fruits three-lobed, three-valved capsules.	Leaf Details	Leaves simple, deciduous, alternate, broad rhombic to ovate in shape with smooth edges, heart shaped, bright green in color

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