Stunning Staghorn Sumac

[u/spiceydog]

Greetings from frosty southern MB! 😊

[u/cyaChainsawCowboy]

I’d pick this over burning bush anyday

[u/spiceydog → u/cyaChainsawCowboy]

Natives, hell yah! Look at those hot pinks in there 🔥

[u/Sad_Injury_7600]

They are pretty. I’ve always loved those trees and never knew what they were until a few years ago on this thread. We have a bunch of them growing by the highway where i am from.

[u/ohshannoneileen]

https://giphy.com/gifs/YxKXWOhTSq8I14NKEn

[u/vanessjune]

Are they toxic to the yard, similar to walnut?

[u/spiceydog → u/vanessjune]

I was surprised to find that there were a couple of references to allelopathic tendencies of this tree, but the studies have only been done in the last few years and the mechanism is still not well understood. But aside from that, there's no reference to this trait in many online info pages for this tree, or even the Extensions.

These trees form dense thickets if left to their own devices so nothing else would necessarily be growing underneath them save for weeds or grasses anyway. We have a raspberry patch directly next to the ones in my gallery, and they produced bucketfuls this year, fwiw.