Rhus succedanea
ζ*R. succedanea L. ζ*, Japanese wax-tree, is commonly cultivated in warmer parts of the country and has been collected wild 3 times, in open coastal forest on Middle Id (Mercury Group, Coromandel), as a weed in an Auckland garden, and from waste ground in Havelock North. Although the last specimen has somewhat hairy leaflets, it probably belongs to this sp. R. succedanea is very easily distinguished from R. typhina as indicated in the key and belongs to a different group of Rhus (sect. Toxicodendron Gray). Members of this sect. are notorious for producing a severe dermatitis in many people and R. succedanea has caused a number of people in N.Z. to be so poisoned. (Himalaya to Japan, 1988)
