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Aleurites Moluccana, Aleurites Triloba, Croton Moluccanus
(Family: Euphorbiaceae) - Candlenut oil tree, Candleberry, Varnish tree, Indian or Belgaum walnut

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Medium to large sized tree, up to 60 ft tall, ornamental, with wide spreading or pendulous branches; leaves simple, variable in shape, young leaves large, up to 12" long, palmate, shining, while leaves on mature trees are ovate, entire, and acuminate, whitish above when young, becoming green with age, with rusty stellate pubescence beneath when young, and persisting on veins. Small flowers in rusty-pubescent penciled cymes, dingy white or creamy. Fruit an indehiscent drupe, roundish, 2" or more in diameter, with thick rough hard shell making up 64–68 percent of fruit, difficult to separate from kernels; containing 1 or 2 seeds. Bears two heavy crops each year, harvested when mature. Kernels adhere to sides of shell and are difficult to separate. Seed yields 57–80 percent of inedible, semi-drying oil, containing oleostearic acid. Oil, quicker drying than linseed oil, is used as a wood preservative, for varnishes and paint oil, as an illuminant, for soap making, waterproofing paper, rubber substitutes and insulating material. Seeds are moderately poisonous and press cake is used as fertilizer. Kernels when roasted and cooked are considered edible; may be strung as candlenuts. Oil is painted on bottoms of small crafts to protect against marine borers. Tung oil, applied to cotton bolls, stops boil weevils from eating them. Also prevents feeding by striped cucumber beetle. Bark used on tumors in Japan. The oil is purgative and sometimes used like castor oil. Kernels are laxative stimulant, and sudorific. The irritant oil is rubbed on scalp as a hair stimulant. In Sumatra, pounded seeds, burned with charcoal,are applied around the navel forcositiveness. In Malaya, the pulped kernel enters poultices for headache, fevers, ulcers, and swollen joints. In Java, the bark is used for bloody diarrhea or dysentery. Bark juice with coconut milk is used for sprue. It's boiled leaves applied to the temples for headache