Chinese tallow tree
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A Chinese tallow tree, for instance, will grow from seed to two-foot-high sapling in a summer and six feet within a year.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2012
At Islamabad, where Pakistan is building a new capital, Liu planted a Chinese tallow tree, declaring, "We hope that it grows and flourishes like the friendship between Pakistan and China."
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, he sends Bartram a small box of upland rice, brought from Cochin China, and also a few seeds of the Chinese tallow tree.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
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