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Rhus typhina
Staghorn Sumac
Anacardiaceae
Located behind Hillel building in weedy patch.
- leaves alternate, pinnate compound, very long (to 2'), with 13 to
27 leaflets
- leaflets oblong-lanceolate, bright green, acuminate, with serrated
margins
- buds rounded, hairy, brown-orange, sitting in the middle of C-shaped
leaf scar
- stems thick, club-like, covered with velvety pubescence when young
- stems smooth and gray when old
- flowers green-yellow, in terminal panicles, in early summer
- fruit is a hairy drupe, deep red, arranged in a dense terminal panicle,
long persistent
- habit is a large shrub or small tree, coarse and open in habit,
flat-topped when old
- plant colonizes by underground root suckers to form a thicket
View Rhus
typhina page in the UConn Plant Database
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