Tropical style tree - Easy to grow - Edible red flowers.
Rhus Typina grown for its tropical apearance, large red summer flowers followed with orange - red leaves and Autumn berries. Reaching 5 meters tall, Sumach is a deciduous, suckering plant. You will often find they grow in numbers together and can spread over time creating a fuller appearance. The leaf petioles and stems are densely covered in rust-colored hairs. The velvety texture and the forking pattern of the branches.The fruit of sumacs are edible. They can be soaked and washed in cold water, strained, sweetened and made into a lemonade -like drink called sumac-ade. The drink extract can also be used to make jelly. You can also grind the dried berries to make sumach poweder for food seaoning. The shoots can be peeled and eaten raw. All parts of the staghorn sumac, except the roots, can be used as both a natural dye and as a mordant. The Autumn leaves can also be dried and smoked.
Frost hardy - Deciduous - Suckering flowering tree
Flowering: June - September
Berries - September - December
Height: Up to 30cm tall
2 Litre Pot
Grows well in a sunny position in dry soil. Will look great in flower beds, borders, pots and rockeries.
Sumach is a generally low maintanance plant, however you may want to top it up with some fresh soil in the early spring to keep your plant healthy. Also trim back any dead branches in early spring, and cut back any unwanted suckers that pop up from the ground.
Grown Sustainably in Wales
All of our plants are grown locally at our Wenvoe nursery using sustainable practices: peat-free organic soil, rainwater irrigation, and zero pesticides or herbicides. All plants are shipped in recycled pots within 48 hours once ordered. Good for your garden, good for the planet.
- Easy to grow
- Fast growing
- Tropical appearance
- Summer flowers
- Autumn berries
- Edible plant
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