Cotinus Mill.

Smoketree (en), Fustet (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Anacardiaceae

Characteristics

Polygamous shrubs or small trees, with yellow wood and pungent-smelling resinous exudates. Leaves alternate, borne on slender petioles, simple, entire to slightly serrate. Inflorescence cymose or paniculate, terminal. Pedicel slender, 4-6 × longer than flower, further elongating and turning villous after anthesis in sterile flowers. Calyx 5-parted, lobes ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, persistent. Petals 5, 2 × as long as calyx. Stamens 5, shorter than petals; anthers ovate, shorter than filaments. Ovary obliquely compressed, 1-locular and 1-ovulate; styles 3. Drupe small, dark red to brown, reniform, compressed, glabrous or pubescent. Seed reniform, exalbuminous; seed coat thin; cotyledon complanate.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality -
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.0
Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 1.8
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Fruit color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 4-7
Soil humidity 2-7
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-10

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings.
Mode cuttings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

Cotinus unspecified picture
Cotinus unspecified picture

Distribution

Cotinus world distribution map, present in China and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30173577-2
WFO ID wfo-4000009471
COL ID 62NHK
BDTFX ID 86235
INPN ID 191210
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Cotinus

Lower taxons

Cotinus carranzae Cotinus chiangii Cotinus kanaka Cotinus nana Cotinus szechuanensis Cotinus americana Cotinus obovatus Cotinus coggygria