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Is the Chinese tallow tree the same as the southern candle tree?
Sapium sebiferum is different from the candle tree in the south.

Sapium sebiferum, alias: wax tree, tallow tree, Mu Zi tree, tallow tree, tallow tree, wax tree, rosin tree, Zizania latifolia, rainbow tree, candle tree, oilseed tree and Moringa oleifera. Euphorbiaceae, Sapium sebiferum is a deciduous tree, and Sapium sebiferum is a colorful tree species. Its leaves are as bright as those in Feng Dan in spring and autumn. As a unique economic tree species in China, it has been cultivated for 1400 years.

Southern candle: Ericaceae, Vaccinium evergreen shrub or small tree, 9 meters high; Many branches, old branches purple-brown, hairless. Leaves thin leathery, racemes terminal and axillary, flowery, bracts leaflike, lanceolate, pedicels short, corolla white, filaments slender, disk densely pubescent. Berries are purple-black when they are ripe, and the flowering and fruiting period is 6-65438+ 10 month.