Canarium album (Lour.) Raeusch., Burseraceae

Click on an image for links to BIGGER PICTURES

Present on Pacific Islands?  no

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  Evaluate, score: 3 (Go to the risk assessment)

Other Latin names:  Pimela alba Lour.

Common name(s): [more details]

Chinese: bai lan, gan lan, huang lang guo, shan lan

English: Chinese white-olive, Chinese-olive

French: canari du Tonkin, canari vulgaire, olive blanche de Chine, olive blanche du Tonkin, olivier chinois, olivier de Chine

Japanese: kanariiuddo, kanariumu, kanaryuumu, kanran, kedondon

Spanish: pisa

Thai: samo cheen, samo chin

Vietnamese: cà na, Trám trang

Habit:  tree

Description:  "Trees, 7-25 (-35) m tall. Branchlets 5-6 mm in diameter, tomentose with yellowish brown hairs when young, glabrescent. Leaves stipulate; leaflets 3-6 pairs; blades lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate, 6-14 x 2-5.5 cm, glabrous or abaxially sparsely setose on veins, base rounded or obliquely cuneate, margin entire, apex acuminate with acumen up to ca. 2 cm; lateral veins 12-16 pairs. Inflorescences axillary, minutely tomentose or glabrescent. Male flowers numerous in cymose panicles 15-30 cm; female inflorescence racemose, with less than 8 flowers. Calyx 2.5-3 mm, 3-fid in male flowers, nearly truncate in female flowers. Stamens glabrous; filaments connate for more than 1/2 of length; disk globose or terete and slightly 6-lobed in male flowers, annular, thick and fleshy, with 3 shallowly sinuate teeth and adaxially somewhat pubescent in female flowers. Infructescences 1.5-15 cm, with 1-6 fruits; persistent calyx flat, ca. 5 mm in diameter, with recurved lobes. Drupe ovoid or spindle-shaped, 25-35 mm, yellow-green, glabrous; exocarp thick, wrinkled when dry; pyrene acuminate"  (Flora of China online).

Habitat/ecology:  In China (native): "Forests on slopes, valleys, also cultivated; 100-1300 m"  (Flora of China online).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  China and Vietnam (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
China China	China (People's Republic of)	native	Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong (2011) Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan
China China	Hong Kong	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Taiwan Taiwan	Taiwan Island	native	Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong (2011)
Vietnam Vietnam	Vietnam (Socialist Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)

Additional information:
Additional online information about Canarium album is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Canarium album as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Canarium album may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Porcher, Michel H. 2011. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database. The University of Melbourne, Australia. Online resource.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.

Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong. 2011. Flora of China (online resource).