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Chinese Tallow - Wikipedia
| Duration: Perennial, deciduous | Origination: China and Japan | Edibility: Uses for seed wax, nectar | Status in Yard: Invasive, controlled |
Chinese tallow is an incredibly invasive tree that has taken over huge areas all over Houston and southeast Texas. A large one lives in the space between my wood back privacy fence and the chain link fence marking the property line.
I have cut it back to its trunk more than once, but branches grow back pretty quickly. The fence prevents me from removing it all together. I regularly have to pull up its seedlings, which come up pretty easily. Sometimes suckers come up from the tree roots, and I have cut the roots in different places. Compared to the goldenrain tree, it is pretty manageable. The photo shows the tree as it was shortly after I move here in May 2013.
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Here are a few of the baby Chinese tallow plants I often pull from the yard.
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