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| name = Smoke Tree<br />
| image = Cotinus coggygria5.jpg<br />
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| image_caption = Foliage and seed heads<br />
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae<br />
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]<br />
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]<br />
| ordo = [[Sapindales]]<br />
| familia = [[Anacardiaceae]]<br />
| genus = ''[[Cotinus]]''<br />
| species = '''''C. coggygria'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Cotinus coggygria''<br />
| binomial_authority = ([[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli|Scop.]])<br />
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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]]. <br />
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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.<br />
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===Cultivation and uses===<br />
It is commonly grown as an [[ornamental plant]], with several [[cultivar]]s available. Many of these have been selected for purple foliage and flowers.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[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]<br />
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