Tallow trees are on invasive lists. Along with the running bamboo - tallow tree produces more seeds than a cholla has spines. Or an ocotilla for that matter. They are all over Houston...
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Yes, I know my tallow tree is on the invasives list but I love her so much and when I was trying to find a seedling, it took months despite there being 4-5 mature trees within 10 blocks of me. Where I live, there are thousands of elm trees that come up in my beds and hundreds of redbuds and I dont have an elm tree! The wind blows the seeds from a neighbor's tree all over my yard. Compared to the others, my tallow tree is very well behaved and she gives so much. It really feeds the birds too. Sometimes it looks like a bird tree, there are so many feasting on it at once. I think they may be migrating birds because they eat in flocks. The resident doves eat them too. I have only two invasives in my yard. The other is Mexican Petunia and I love it too. I have it in a spot surrounded by cement driveway, sidewalk and street so it can only cast the seeds so far. Im hoping the rest of my mostly native plants balance the fact that Im having an illicit affair with these two.
Chuckl- you are in a zone that everything is invasive. I will try and get a picture of one of those tallow trees those birds spread around.... Mine are fairly well behaved tho were there with those nasty elms(why arent they listed as invasive?) sweetgums, smilax, yaupon...where we are too. Its a single tree that is a living horror story when you see it.
Don't get me started on yaupon. Dave and I laugh any time we go to the big box stores and see someone loading up their cart and PAYING for yaupon. We spend years trying to eradicate it off the farm, and they are PAYING for it! My gallows are very well behaved, I think we have three and they are in an old cow pen. Young trees are excellent tasty tidbits for livestock.