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Toona sinensis

Toona sinensis
ToonaSinensis.jpg
Foliage and seed capsules
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Meliaceae
Genus: Toona
Species: T. sinensis
Binomial name
Toona sinensis
(A.Juss.) M.Roem.
Synonyms
  • Ailanthus flavescens Carrière
  • Ailanthus mairei Gagnep.
  • Cedrela longiflora var. kumaona C. DC.
  • Cedrela serrata var. puberula C. DC.
  • Cedrela sinensis Juss.
  • Cedrela sinensis var. lanceolata H.L. Li
  • Cedrela sinensis var. schensiana C. DC.
  • Mioptrila odorata Raf.
  • Surenus glabra (C. DC.) Kuntze
  • Surenus serrata (Royle) Kuntze
  • Surenus serrulata (Miq.) Kuntze
  • Surenus sinensis (Juss.) Kuntze
  • Toona glabra (C. DC.) Harms
  • Toona microcarpa var. denticulata A. Chev.
  • Toona microcarpa var. grandifolia A. Chev.
  • Toona serrata (Royle) M. Roem.
  • Toona serrulata (Miq.) Harms
  • Toona sinensis var. hupehana (C. DC.) A. Chev.
  • Toona sinensis var. incarvillei A. Chev.
  • Toona sinensis var. schensiana (C. DC.) H. Li ex X.M. Chen

Toona sinensis, with common names Chinese mahogany,Chinese toon, or red toon (Chinese: 香椿; pinyin: xiāngchūn; Hindi: daaraluu; Malay: suren; Vietnamese: tông dù) is a species of Toona native to eastern and southeastern Asia, from North Korea south through most of eastern, central and southwestern China to Nepal, northeastern India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and western Indonesia.

It is a deciduous tree growing to 25 metres (82 ft) tall with a trunk up to 70 cm diameter. The bark is brown, smooth on young trees, becoming scaly to shaggy on old trees. The leaves are pinnate, 50–70 cm long and 30–40 cm broad, with 10–40 leaflets, the terminal leaflet usually absent (paripinnate) but sometimes present (imparipennate); the individual leaflets 9–15 cm long and 2.5–4 cm broad, with an entire or weakly serrated margin. The flowers are produced in summer in panicles 30–50 cm long at the end of a branch; each flower is small, 4–5 mm diameter, with five white or pale pink petals. The fruit is a capsule 2–3.5 cm long, containing several winged seeds.


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