Staghorn Sumac
wendy2shoes
19 years ago
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Comments (2)Just sent you a private email. Linda...See MoreStaghorn Sumacs are dying
Comments (17)I have to be honest with YOU. Staghorn Sumac trees are seen in my area as "weed trees", in other words, they are trees that are seen as being like "weeds". They had been growing wild along the driveway near mine and my neighbors house. AND, somehow Staghorn Sumac seems to have been given more respect from my neighbor, than it should have been given. Even though the Staghorn Sumac is a kinda "Trash tree" of a tree that is REALLY seen as a UNLOVED tree. I really DO welcome that anybody who see's the "Staghorn Sumac" as being a SOURCE of HORRIBLE news about just how much looking into the problems between the actual ":bitching about what is wrong", could ever be able to show the actual conflict about the problems could ever be clear enough to solve the mystery....See MoreStaghorn Sumac
Comments (14)"Most "invasive" plants are simply those which are good at colonizing disturbed sites, which describes most urban and suburban areas. That is, after all, their niche in nature. As a site matures into forest, the invasives generally disappear as they can't take the low sunlight or competition of a mature forest." Depends on your definition of invasive, but that statement actually somewhat contradicts the scientific definitions we are usually referring to here on Gardenweb. Here is one simplistic example of a definition I like: Invasive plant - an exotic plant that invades and displaces natives in functioning natural ecosystems. So, it's usually the invasives that are displacing the natives, not the other way around. That's why we call them invasive....See MoreStaghorn Sumac as a Street Tree
Comments (3)hmmmm.....maybe that was a smooth sumac I was looking at in someone's yard.......It was parasol like you mentioned....I just assumed is was staghorn because that is the most common type around here....See MoreJudy_B_ON
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