We don’t need no water, let the Staghorn Sumac burn!
- Burn, Staghorn Sumac, Burn!
Do you have Staghorn Sumac where you live? I bet you do.
Here is everything I know about it.
- It’s really easy to pull out, if you have an infestation. You can most likely do it with one hand!
- It has a weird scent, like the rest of the Rhus family. I think it’s sort of chocolatey, but fake. Like a chocolate scented scratch n’ sniff sticker, but more fake. Oh wait. Like a CAROB scratch n’ sniff sticker.
- It’s in the cashew family, like Smoke Trees and Pistachios, so maybe I’m way off on that carob thing.
- They grow in colonies and also develop verticillium wilt in colonies. And then die in colonies.
- You can use the “drupe” (that’s the flower thingie) as dye or in food. When you do that, you can point to the thing you dyed or cooked and say, “Drupe, there it is!”
- Sure, it’s a total weed- but the cultivar ‘Tiger Eye’ is a big whoop. So naturally, I didn’t have a lot of luck with it so I gave it to the neighbor.
And now I know what that stuff is called and removed it from my vast mental folder titled: weeds, subcategory: big weeds.
love the reds & maroons!
I dearly love Rhuses of all kinds, and I’ve been tapping my foot waiting for R. typhina ‘Laciniata’ to colonize over here. Have a bead on some ‘Tiger Eyes’ babies, but need to find the perfect spot for them first…
Greta picture love the color and textures : )