RHUS typhina

stag's horn sumach, green-flowered sumach

RHUS typhina

stag's horn sumach, green-flowered sumach

  • Maintenance advice : At the end of winter, remove the branches that has flowered in order to enhance the production of fruits. It can easily be rejuvenate if you wish, by pruning every 5 years to 10-15 cm above the ground surface. Remove a few shoots if necessary.
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : United States
  • Use group : Sträucher
  • Height at 10 years : 4 m
  • Width at 10 years : 3 m
  • Growth : Fast
  • Fragrance : No
  • Exposure : Full sun
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Deciduous
  • Shape : tree like
  • Colour of leaves : Green
  • Colour of flowers : Red
  • Soil type : Garden soil
  • Uses : Free standing specimen
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Fast growing plant, very hardy and easy to grow. It spreads thanks to its suckers. Rounded shrub, wider than it is tall when mature. It produces a small and picturesque trunk when we let it grow. Its strong branches covered with down looks like deer antlers. The foliage is composed of 30 to 50 cm long leaflets. Dark green downy leaves, turning bright orange-red in autumn. Inconspicuous flowering followed by velvet fruits in attractive red clusters, on female plants, from autumn to winter.