Sumacs and Bare Tree
by Lingfai Leung
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Sumacs and Bare Tree
Artist
Lingfai Leung
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Photograph - Photographs
Description
Photographed in November 8, 2015 at Toronto Brickworks.
Sumacs are dioecious shrubs and small trees in the family Anacardiadeae that can reach a height of 1 - 10 m (3.3 - 32.8 ft). The leaves are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5 - 30 cm (2.0 - 11.8 in) long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits are reddish, thin-fleshed drupes covered in varying levels of hairs at maturity and form dense clusters at branch tips, sometimes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new shoots from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
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