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{{SPlantbox
|familia=Meliaceae
|familia=Meliaceae
|genus=Toona
|genus=Toona
|species=sinensis
|species=sinensis
|common_name=Chinese Toon
|common_name=Chinese Toon
|Max wd metric=ft
|Max wd metric=ft
|width_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|width_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|lifespan=perennial
|exposure=sun
|exposure=sun
|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|max_zone=11
|max_zone=11
|image=Upload.png
|image=ToonaSinensis.jpg
|image_width=240
|image_width=240
|image_caption=Foliage and seed capsules
}}
}}
'''''Toona sinensis''''' (syn. ''Cedrela sinensis'' A.Juss.; '''Chinese Mahogany''', '''Chinese Toon''', or '''Red Toon'''), is a species of ''[[Toona]]'' native to eastern and southeastern [[Asia]]
It is a [[deciduous]] [[tree]] growing to 25 m tall with a trunk up to 70 cm diameter. The [[bark]] is brown, smooth on young trees, becoming scaly to shaggy on old trees. The [[leaf|leaves]] are [[pinnate]], 50–70 cm long and 30–40 cm broad, with 10–40 leaflets, the terminal leaflet usually absent (imparipinnate) but sometimes present; the individual leaflets 9–15 cm long and 2.5–4 cm broad, with an entire or weakly serrated margin. The [[flower]]s are produced in summer in [[panicle]]s 30–50 cm long at the end of a branch; each flower is small, 4–5 mm diameter, with five white or pale pink petals. The [[fruit]] is a [[capsule (fruit)|capsule]] 2–3.5 cm long, containing several winged [[seed]]s.<ref>http://subject.forest.gov.tw/species/twtrees/book5/15.htm</ref>
==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==
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Image:Toona sinensis.jpg|Leaf (unusual specimen with terminal leaflet)
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