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The tree wants to grow with several trunks, but can be trained to grow with a single trunk. It has no thorns. [citation needed] Its leaves are alternate [7] and pinnately compound. [7] [8] The leaflets are borne on alate rachis that give the plant one of its common names: "winged sumac". [9]
Sumac or sumach [a] (/ ˈ s uː m æ k, ˈ ʃ uː-/ S(H)OO-mak, UK also / ˈ sj uː-/)—not to be confused with poison sumac—is any of the roughly 35 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus (and related genera) of the cashew and mango tree family, Anacardiaceae. However, it is Rhus coriaria that is most commonly used for culinary purposes.
Rhus trilobata is a shrub in the sumac genus with the common names skunkbush sumac, [1] sourberry, skunkbush, [2] and three-leaf sumac. It is native to the western half of Canada and the Western United States, from the Great Plains to California and south through Arizona extending into northern Mexico. It can be found from deserts to mountain ...
Fragrant sumac is a woody plant with a rounded form that grows to around 2 ft (0.6 m) to 5 ft (1.5 m) tall and 5 ft (1.5 m) to 10 ft (3.0 m) wide. The plant develops yellow flowers in clusters on short lateral shoots in March through May. The flower is a small, dense inflorescence that usually opens before the plant's leaves do. [2]
There are a lot of great plant species for landscaping, both native and non-native.
Rhus glabra, the smooth sumac, [2] (also known as white sumac, upland sumac, or scarlet sumac) [3] is a species of sumac in the family Anacardiaceae, native to North America, from southern Quebec west to southern British Columbia in Canada, and south to northern Florida and Arizona in the United States and Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.
Rhus lanceolata, the prairie sumac, is a species of plant native to the south-western United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico), and northern Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas). [2] [3] [4] Rhus lanceolata is a shrub or small tree up to 9 m (30 feet) tall, reproducing by means of underground rhizomes.
Rhus typhina is a dioecious, deciduous shrub or small tree growing up to 5 m (16 ft) tall by 6 m (20 ft) broad. It has alternate, pinnately compound leaves 25–55 cm (10–22 in) long, each with 9–31 serrate leaflets 6–11 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long. [8] Leaf petioles and stems are densely covered in rust-colored hairs.