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Rhus Typhina (Staghorn Sumac), is a deciduous shrub to small tree in the Anacardiaceae or Cashew family, native to eastern North America, from Ontario and Quebec south to northern Georgia and Mississippi.
It grows to 3-10 m tall, and has alternate, pinnately compound leaves 25-55 cm long, each with 9-31 serrate leaflets 6-11 cm long. The leaf petioles and the stems are densely covered in rust-colored hairs.
The fruit of staghorn sumac is one of the most identifiable characteristics, forming dense clusters of small red drupes at the terminal end of the branches; the clusters are conic, 10-20 cm long and 4-6 cm broad at the base. The plant flowers from May to July and fruit ripens from June to September. The foliage turns a brilliant red in autumn. The fruit has been known to last through winter and into spring.
Rhus Typhina spreads using its seeds, and by spreading rhizomes. This makes it so the tree forms colonies, with the oldest plants in the center, and the younger plants radiating out. It grows quite aggressively.
Rhus Typhina grows in gardens, lawns, the edges of forests, and waisteland. It can grow under a wide array of conditions, but is most often found in dry and poor soil on which other plants cannot survive.
Plant seeds 1/4 inch deep in full sun.
20 seeds in package.
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