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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Smoke Tree
| image = Cotinus coggygria5.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Foliage and seed heads
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Sapindales]]
| familia = [[Anacardiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Cotinus]]''
| species = '''''C. coggygria'''''
| binomial = ''Cotinus coggygria''
| binomial_authority = ([[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli|Scop.]])
}}
The '''Eurasian smoketree''' or '''smoke tree''' (''Cotinus coggygria'', syn. ''Rhus cotinus'') is native to a large area from southern [[Europe]], east across central [[Asia]] and the [[Himalaya]] to northern [[China]].
It is a multiple-branching [[shrub]] growing to 5-7 m tall with an open, spreading, irregular habit, only rarely forming a small [[tree]]. The [[leaf|leaves]] are 3-8 cm long, rounded oval, green with a waxy glaucous sheen. The autumn colour can be strikingly varied, from peach and yellow to scarlet. The [[flower]]s are numerous, produced in large [[inflorescence]]s 15-30 cm long; each flower 5-10 mm diameter, with five pale yellow petals. Most of the flowers in each inflorescence abort, elongating into yellowish-pink to pinkish-purple feathery plumes, which surround the small (2-3 mm) [[drupe|drupaceous]] [[fruit]] that do develop.
===Cultivation and uses===
It is commonly grown as an [[ornamental plant]], with several [[cultivar]]s available. Many of these have been selected for purple foliage and flowers.
<gallery>
Image:Cotinus coggygria0.jpg
Image:Cotinus coggygria1.jpg
Image:Cotinus coggyria.jpg
</gallery>
==External links==
*[http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Cotinus&SPECIES_XREF=&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= Flora Europaea: European distribution]
{{commons|Cotinus coggygria}}
[[Category:Sapindales]]
[[Category:Flora of Armenia]]
{{Sapindales-stub}}
| color = lightgreen
| name = Smoke Tree
| image = Cotinus coggygria5.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Foliage and seed heads
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Sapindales]]
| familia = [[Anacardiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Cotinus]]''
| species = '''''C. coggygria'''''
| binomial = ''Cotinus coggygria''
| binomial_authority = ([[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli|Scop.]])
}}
The '''Eurasian smoketree''' or '''smoke tree''' (''Cotinus coggygria'', syn. ''Rhus cotinus'') is native to a large area from southern [[Europe]], east across central [[Asia]] and the [[Himalaya]] to northern [[China]].
It is a multiple-branching [[shrub]] growing to 5-7 m tall with an open, spreading, irregular habit, only rarely forming a small [[tree]]. The [[leaf|leaves]] are 3-8 cm long, rounded oval, green with a waxy glaucous sheen. The autumn colour can be strikingly varied, from peach and yellow to scarlet. The [[flower]]s are numerous, produced in large [[inflorescence]]s 15-30 cm long; each flower 5-10 mm diameter, with five pale yellow petals. Most of the flowers in each inflorescence abort, elongating into yellowish-pink to pinkish-purple feathery plumes, which surround the small (2-3 mm) [[drupe|drupaceous]] [[fruit]] that do develop.
===Cultivation and uses===
It is commonly grown as an [[ornamental plant]], with several [[cultivar]]s available. Many of these have been selected for purple foliage and flowers.
<gallery>
Image:Cotinus coggygria0.jpg
Image:Cotinus coggygria1.jpg
Image:Cotinus coggyria.jpg
</gallery>
==External links==
*[http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Cotinus&SPECIES_XREF=&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= Flora Europaea: European distribution]
{{commons|Cotinus coggygria}}
[[Category:Sapindales]]
[[Category:Flora of Armenia]]
{{Sapindales-stub}}