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THE supply of tung oil has been so profoundly affected by the war in China that considerable interest is attached to a report by Dr. M. Ashby upon his tour of the area in the United States in which the tung tree is now being cultivated (Bull. Imperial Inst.,38, No. 1; 1940). It is estimated that some 175,000 acres in the States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico now carry plantations of this tree, but many earlier plantations were on land that has since proved unsuitable, the great difficulty proving to be frost damage. The species cultivated is almost exclusively Aleurites fordii Hemsl.
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Tung Oil. Nature 145, 738 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145738c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145738c0