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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]
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.
Sumac was especially dangerous to marble: "When sumac dust settles on white marble, the result is not immediately apparent, but if it once becomes wet, or even damp, it becomes a powerful purple dye, which penetrates the marble to an extraordinary depth." [28] Ibn Badis describes a formula for making red ink out of leeched sumac mixed with gum ...
Smooth sumac has a spreading, open habit, growing up to 3 metres (10 ft) tall. [4] The bark is smooth and gray to brown. [4] The leaves are alternate, 30–50 centimetres (12–20 in) long, compound with 11–31 oppositely paired leaflets. Each leaflet is 5–13 cm (2–5 in) long, with a serrated margin. [4] The leaves turn scarlet in the fall.
Rhus potaninii, the Chinese varnish tree, Chinese sumac (names it shares with other species), Potanin's sumac, or Potanin's lacquer tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is native to central and southern China. [ 2 ]
There are a lot of great plant species for landscaping, both native and non-native.
Winged females leave the gall in late summer and fly to moss, where they establish asexually reproducing colonies. The colonies produce the males and sexual females responsible for recolonizing sumac each spring." [3]: 758 In 1989, it was reported that the use of alternate plant hosts by the aphids dates from 48 million years before present. [6]
Rhus coriaria, commonly called Sicilian sumac, [3] tanner's sumach, [4] or elm-leaved sumach, is a deciduous shrub to small tree in the cashew family Anacardiaceae. It is native to southern Europe and western Asia. [2] The dried fruits are used as a spice, particularly in combination with other spices in the mixture called za'atar.