Triadica sebifera
(L.) Small · speciesAt a glance
Sources15 archives
Databases and archives Triadica sebifera's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation13 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility24 777 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI18 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics26 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Triadica sebifera is a tree native to eastern China and Taiwan. It is commonly called Chinese tallow, Chinese tallowtree, Florida aspen, chicken tree, gray popcorn tree, or candleberry tree. The seeds (as well as from those of Triadica cochinchinensis) are the sources of stillingia oil, a drying oil used in paints and varnishes. The fatty coat of the seeds, used for candle and soap making, is known as stillingia tallow; hence its common name. It is relevant to biodiesel production because it is the third most productive vegetable oil producing crop in the world, after algae and oil palm. The leaves are used as herbal medicine to treat boils. The plant sap and leaves are reputed to be toxic, and decaying leaves from the plant are toxic to other species of plants. The species is classified as a noxious invader in the southern U.S. This species and T. cochinchinensis were formerly classified in the genus Stillingia, as Stillingia sebifera and Stillingia discolor (hence the name still used for the oil and tallow). The specific epithet sebifera is derived from Latin sebum (meaning "tallow") and fero (meaning "to bear"), thus "tallow-bearing". At some time before 1950, this tree was reclassified into the genus Sapium as Sapium sebiferum, and many papers about the oil still refer to the tree by this name. In 2002 or so it was reclassified again into the genus Triadica with its present name.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology19
Life cycle & reproduction12
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment9
Physiology & chemistry9
Compounds documented for Triadica sebifera across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds201 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-alpha-Carene | present | NPASS | |
| (+)-Bakkenolide A | present | NPASS | |
| (+)-Petasin | present | NPASS | |
| (-)-Bakkenolide B | present | NPASS | |
| (-)-Bakkenolide D | present | NPASS | |
| (-)-Caryophyllene | present | NPASS | |
| (-)-Linalool | present | NPASS | |
| (1R,2S,3S,4R,5S,8R,10R,13R)-5-hydroxy-2-methoxy-3,4,13-trimethyl-11,14-dioxatetracyclo[8.3.1.01,10.03,8]tetradecan-12-one | present | NPASS | |
| (2R)-2-[(4aR,8S,8aR)-8,8a-dimethyl-3-oxo-4,4a,5,6,7,8-hexahydronaphthalen-2-yl]propanoic acid | present | NPASS | |
| (2R,3aS,7S,7aR)-7,7a-dimethyl-4'-methylidenespiro[3,3a,4,5,6,7-hexahydro-1H-indene-2,3'-oxolane]-2'-one | present | NPASS |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Triadica sebifera has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Triadica sebifera carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 363×CCDB · book-indian_vol1 · CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
2n 442×CCDB · book-indian_vol1 · CCDB · eflora
2n 801×CCDB · book-indian_vol1
2n 881×CCDB · book-indian_vol1
n 446×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn72 · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 +1
n 402×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type24 777 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions62 of 91 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Central China Normal Universitylocation not on record | 246 |
| Tampa, US | 43 |
| Kochi, JP | 40 |
| Austin, US | 35 |
| Fort Worth, US | 34 |
| Bronx, US | 32 |
| Jackson, US | 23 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 20 |
| US | 20 |
| Texas Lutheran Universitylocation not on record | 19 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 18 |
| Saint Louis, US | 16 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 16 |
| Tokushima, JP | 14 |
| GAlocation not on record | 11 |
| Valdosta State Universitylocation not on record | 11 |
| Brisbane, AU | 11 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 10 |
| Columbia, US | 10 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 8 |
| Miami, US | 7 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 7 |
| Armidale, AU | 7 |
| Kagoshima, JP | 7 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 6 |
| Mississippi State, US | 5 |
| Knoxville, US | 5 |
| Nagano City, JP | 5 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 5 |
| Davis, US | 5 |
| University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record | 5 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 5 |
| FFPRIlocation not on record | 5 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 5 |
| Nanjing, CN | 4 |
| China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| Herbarium of South China Botanical Gardenlocation not on record | 4 |
| Canberra, AU | 4 |
| Auckland, NZ | 4 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 4 |
| Dekalb, US | 3 |
| Clemson, US | 3 |
| University of North Carolina at Pembrokelocation not on record | 3 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 3 |
| Emporia, US | 3 |
| Tempe, US | 3 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 3 |
| Little Rock, US | 3 |
| Museum Of Natural And Environmental History, Shizuokalocation not on record | 2 |
| Phoenix, US | 2 |
| Richmond, US | 2 |
| BGPAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Riverside, US | 2 |
| Smithfield, AU | 2 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 2 |
| GMBAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| Minia, EG | 1 |
| Wollongong, AU | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| Guilin, CN | 1 |
| Williamsburg, US | 1 |
| Ojo, NG | 1 |
| KOMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Taipei, TW | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Wlocation not on record | 1 |
| Boise, US | 1 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pittsburg, US | 1 |
| Los Angeles, US | 1 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 1 |
| GB | 1 |
| Toyama, JP | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 1 |
| Sagamihara, JP | 1 |
| Columbus State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Lanzhou, CN | 1 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 1 |
| Columbus State University Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Flagstaff, US | 1 |
| James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studieslocation not on record | 1 |
| Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Irvine, US | 1 |
| Texas Lutheran Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Bloomington, US | 1 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
| Hobart, AU | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| San Diego, US | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Triadica sebifera was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.