Botanical Name: Rhus lancea
Common Name: African sumac
Type of Plant: dicot: tree
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape an upright, mostly wide-spreading and multi-trunked tree, with irregular branching forming a loose rounded canopy; has conspicuous rough, dark red-brown bark on larger branches
Height 15-25' (30')
Spread equal or more
Growth Rate mod-rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun; does poorly in shaded habitats
Soil tolerates most, including desert alkaline soils
Hardiness some frost (zones 8, 9, 12-24); prefers heat and sun
 
Morphology:
Leaves trifoliate, alternate; leaflets are linear-falcate, 2-4" long, dark green, shiny, on 1-2" long petioles
Flowers yellow-green, inconspicuous, in axillary 1-2" long panicles; fall
Fruit a drupe; tiny, yellowish-red in panicle-clusters
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
an excellent accent tree for its picturesque form and foliage; shade tree, large background screen; used as a large street tree in low elevation desert habitats
 
Landscape Care:
Watering regular is preferred; but can tolerate drought after established
Fertilizing little needed after established
Pruning head high and develop primary branch structure; thin out
Pests/Diseases relatively free; suffers from Texas root rot in desert
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Africa
Family: Anacardiaceae

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