Cotinus Coggygria Bark

Deciduous shrub tree 10 15 ft 3 4 5 m spreading loose wide as high. Native to or naturalized in oregon.

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Cotinus coggygria bark

The fruit of the plant is a kidney shaped dry fruit that is irrelevant to its appeal. Shading capacity rated as dense in leaf. A hybrid of cotinus obovatus and cotinus coggygria velvet cloak.

Tough adaptable to widely divergent soils and ph ranges drought resistant. Cotinus coggygria is an upright spreading deciduous shrub or small tree in the cashew family. The bark of the tree is also distinguishable by its waxy smooth texture and purple or brown bark.

Leaves alternate simple oval to obovate 4 9 cm long glabrous margin. Have you ever seen a smoke tree european cotinus coggygria american cotinus obovatus. When the bark matures it gets broken up into small thin blocks which turn light gray.

Bark dark brown exfoliating. Growing smoke trees is something people do to make great looking shrub borders or even just as a pretty patio or accent tree in a front yard garden. Smoke bush cotinus coggygria is a deciduous shrub that s also commonly known as royal purple smoke bush smokebush smoke tree and purple smoke tree.

Hardy to usda zone 5 native. Springtime is the peak season for most but a few such as the purple smokebush cotinus coggygria strut their stuff in early summer. Easily transplanted and established.

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