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Tetrapanax papyrifer
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Tetrapanax.
Tetrapanax papyrifer, the rice paper plant (通草—tong cao), is an evergreenshrub or small tree in the familyAraliaceae, the sole species in the genusTetrapanax. The specific epithet is frequently misspelled as "papyriferum", "papyriferus", or "papyrifera". It is native to eastern and central China and Taiwan, but widely cultivated in East Asia and in other tropical to mild temperate regions as well.