Re: candle tree

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• Subject: Re: candle tree
• From: J*@aol.com
• Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 01:50:40 EDT
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	DrPaulBear@xtra.co.nz  wrote:

There is a tree called the candle nut tree, Aleurites molucana, if this
is the one that you are looking for I can put you on to a source of
seed.
		Paul.mihenry@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> I am looking for candle tree. I don't know the botanical name.
> I have heard that it grows in North Carolina, also Texas.
> 
> Seeds burn as fuel.
> 

From the description of Aleurites moluccana in TROPICALS by Gordon Courtright
: "Each tree can produce 75 - 100 pounds of nuts which have an oil content of
50%."   It  "is naturalized throughout the tropical world."

I think this might be  the right tree.   Jackie

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