Sumac Bonsai Tree
Its forked branches are covered with furry rust red colored hairs much like a stag s antlers.
Sumac bonsai tree. Fragrant sumac is a dense low shrub that readily spreads by suckers to form thickets. I think you re wise in waiting a bit to see what the new growth does. List of key staghorn tree facts. It has trifoliate with three leaflets medium green leaves that turn orange red and purple in autumn.
Foliage deciduous flowering june to august. Sumac bonsai i like unusual and bizarre plants and often use them to create unique bonsai. I think the sumac has great potential for a beautiful bonsai especially with those leaves. If your looking for an unusual bonsai tree why not try a sumac or two or three of them.
Staghorn sumac rhus typhina is a small tree with branches that spread to make a small rounded crown. I can t find any information on sumac bonsai. I am currently growing it inside because it is very smokey outside where i live and i got worried about the wood smoke affecting it. There is even a native variety to colorado called a 3 leaf sumac or stink bush.
Pollinated female plants produce red. The leaves and twigs are fragrant when crushed or damaged a feature that lends the plant its common name. Maybe this is because they are not a suitable type of tree for bonsai i have no idea. The common sumac is a large shrub or small tree which can be found growing native throughout north america and other regions of the world.
I would tend to want to focus on developinng a wider lower trunk and nebari but that s just me. I look forward to following the progession of this one. Sumac s make great yard trees in colorado since they are very hardy. Staghorn sumac also called vinegar sumac is a short tree that grows in a roundish shape.
9625 surface hill rd mint hill nc 28227. They are often considered weed trees with large compound leaves. There is a distinct smell to them when you work on them. Name rhus typhina family anacardiaceae type shrub.
Fruit clusters are long and tight and covered with the same velvety fur. Height 16 feet 5 m exposure full sun soil ordinary.