Torreya grandis Fortune

Common Names

Taxonomic notes

Description

Range

China: Anhui to Guizhou, to 1400 m (1).

Big Tree

V. Dinets (3) reports a tree in Anhui that was 39 m high in 1993.

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Planted as an ornamental in Europe and North America (2).

Observations

Remarks

Citations

(1) Silba 1986.
(2) Matthew H. Hils at the Flora of North America web site.
(3) Vladimir Dinets, e-mail communication, 10-Jan-1998.


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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 21-Dec-98

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