Category: Seminum | Sub-Category: Shrubs and Vines
Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Rhus typhina ‘Laciniata’
Family: Anacardiaceae
(P) to 15′. Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac. Eastern North America. A wonderful cultivar of our native Sumac with large, deeply dissected, compound pinnate, bright green leaves giving a fern-like appearance. Female flowers produce showy, pyramidal, fruiting clusters (to eight inches long), with each cluster containing numerous hairy, berry-like drupes which ripen bright red in autumn, gradually turning dark red as they persist through much of the winter. Fruit is attractive to wildlife and can be used to make lemonade. Fantastic autumn colour in shades of orange, yellow and red, as well as interesting architectural winter framework gives this shrub year-round interest. 1 & 2B & 3 & 6
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