Cotinus

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Cotinus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/cotinus/). Accessed 2024-10-11.

Family

Anacardiaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

included: (botanical) Contained within another part or organ.
simple: (of a leaf) Unlobed or undivided.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Cotinus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/cotinus/). Accessed 2024-10-11.

Superb colouring on a wild plant of Cotinus coggygria in central Albania, June 2023. Image Tom Christian.

A genus of two species long included in Rhus, from which they are easily distinguished by their simple leaves and by their fruiting panicles having long, thread-like, plumose ‘stalks’, which are in fact the elongated pedicels of sterile flowers. One species is from Europe and Asia; the other from eastern N. America.

The famous old tree of Cotinus obovatus at Kew, which has inspired many to try to grow it so well (November 2008) Image John Grimshaw.

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