Sapium sebiferum

Chinese vegetable tallow, tallowberry, tallow tree

Deciduous tree 4-5 m high, sometimes up to 10 m tall, which may assume the habits of a shrub. Cultivated for the fruit, which between the outer husk and seed has a white tallowy mesocarp used in the manufacture of soap and candles. The liquid oil extracted from the seed is used for technical purposes. The oilcake is seldom used in animal feed.

					As % of dry matter
				DM	CP	CF	Ash	EE	NFE	Ca	P	Ref
Fresh leaves, India				31.5	17.8	12.4	6.0	5.3	58.5	1.36	0.22	441