Is it really called a popcorn tree?

If you are from the South, you might recognize that name. Most people see them as a nuisance because they grow like weeds. Alabama Forestry has sent letters to land owners offering $75.00 an acre to clear their land of them because they grow so much faster than any hardwood and they are taking over.

Is it really called a popcorn tree?
I live in Florida where they run rampant....have 2 in my yard, and the Florida department of agriculture are trying to have all popcorn trees eliminated..they have a program as well for them..





The Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants and the St. Johns River Water Management District are jointly surveying the spread of, as well as determining the cost of eliminating, Chinese tallow from District-owned lands, where it is quickly invading some of Florida's few remaining virgin forests and wetlands. District workers have already begun to kill individual trees with herbicides. Here is more information about this joint project.





http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/sapium.html





http://www.talgov.com/you/electric/tallo...
Reply:Don't know the generic name, but there was one in our backyard in Montgomery. I think it was called that because it had blooms like popcorn balls or maybe individual popcorn kernels. Don't recall seeing them anywhere else, or maybe I just wouldn't recognize one now...

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