[PAR35]

During World War II, the government encouraged the planting of Tung trees in South Georgia as part of the war effort. (Although Tung trees were first planted in north Florida and South Georgia about a hundred years ago. )

Near Cairo, [GA] ca. 1906-1908. Woman stands next to a flowering tung tree. The seeds of the tung tree produce tung oil, the most powerful drying oil known. According to the J. B. Wight Nurseries and Fairchild's The World Has My Garden, the "largest tung oil tree in this country has grown from a seed imported in 1907. It has borne 250 pounds of nuts in one year." http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/meta/html/dlg/vang/meta_dlg_vang_gra022.html?Welcome

[Islander7]

I remember the groves in bloom. They are beautiful, the leaves are large, heart shaped and bright green.