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Rhus typhina 'Tiger Eyes'
Stag's Horn Sumach
Common Name: Stag’s horn sumach/ Balitiger Latin Name: Rhus typhina ‘Tiger Eyes’Soil: fertile, well-drained soilPosition: Full sun Flowering period/colour: summer/ green-yellow (insignificant) Hardiness: HardyEventual height/spread: 2m/3mSpecial features: A colourful, dwarf variety that maintains a compact form The ‘Tiger Eyes’ is a truly striking plant with so much to offer. The large, fern-like leaves are bright yellow-green in colour with attractive pink stems. Autumn is when the finely-divided foliage really bursts to life as it turns to a fiery mound of deep orange and red. This ‘stag’s horn sumach’ maintains a fairly compact habit, making this an excellent choice for adding structure and colour to a border. It is a wonderful architectural plant and it will certainly become a focal point of any display. To get the best out of this shrub, plant it in full sunlight.
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Rhus typhina
Stag's Horn Sumach
Common Name: Stag's horn sumachLatin Name: Rhus typhinaSoil: Moist, well-drained soilPosition: Full sunFlowering period/colour: Spring/Large, erect green clusters of male flowers and smaller, female clusters borne of separate plants.Hardiness: Very hardyEventual height/spread: 6/6mSpecial features: Dense conical clusters of crimson hairy fruits which are most decorative at the end of the year.A wide-spreading suckering tree which loses its lower leaves with age, revealing an attractive skeleton below and leaving a bushy canopy at the top. It has large leaflets on long stems and these take on exceptionally fine autumnal tints of deep red and firey orange. There are separate male and female plants and the female has red, wooly columnar fruits at the end of the summer which are picturesque.
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