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TALLOW TREE

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 379 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TALLOW TREE , in botany, the popular name of a small tree, Stillingia sebifera, belonging to the family
Euphorbiaceae
 , a native of
China
 , but cultivated in India and other warm countries. The seeds are thickly coated with a
white
  greasy
abstanceso-caned vegetable tallowfrom which candles are stoves which warmed the houses of
parliament
 . On the 16th of made, and which is also used in soap-making and dressing
cloth
 .
The butter tree or tallow tree of Sierra Leone is Pentadesma butyracea, a member of the family Guttiferae. The fruit, which is 4 to 5 in.
long
  and about 3 in. in
diameter
 , has a thick fleshy rind abounding in a yellow greasy juice.


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