Trochodendraceae
Wheel tree
Trochodendron aralioides
- Family
- Trochodendraceae
- Genus
- Trochodendron
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Common names
By language (6)
- Chinese
- 昆栏树, 昆欄樹, 臺灣雲葉
- English
- Wheel tree
- Finnish
- Rataspuu
- German
- Radbaum
- Japanese
- ヤマグルマ
- Russian
- Троходендрон аралиевидный
Synonyms
- Trochodendron aralioides f. longifolium (Maxim.) Ohwi
- Trochodendron aralioides var. longifolium Maxim.
- Trochodendron longifolium Regel & Herder
Photos
Photo: Eric in SF, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Scott Zona from Miami, Florida, USA, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Wendy Cutler from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons ![Wheel tree: The specimen in my shady raised bed to compare with the one in the ground at Pool Meadow [1] . This one has a more orange winter speckling where the Pool Meadow](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Trochodendron_aralioides_-_Flickr_-_peganum.jpg/500px-Trochodendron_aralioides_-_Flickr_-_peganum.jpg)
Photo: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
![Wheel tree: The specimen in my shady raised bed to compare with the one in the ground at Pool Meadow [1] . This one has a more orange winter speckling where the Pool Meadow](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Trochodendron_aralioides_-_Flickr_-_peganum.jpg/1280px-Trochodendron_aralioides_-_Flickr_-_peganum.jpg)
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.