The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Cotinus coggygria
Also called Smoke Tree, Venetian Sumac, Smokebush, Smoke Bush, Wig Tree, Young Fustic, Fustet
European smoketree is a deciduous shrub, occasionally a small tree, grown for its smoky pink plumes in summer and striking autumn colour. The key to success is full sun and well-drained soil, as it dislikes wet roots.
Cotinus coggygria, syn. Rhus cotinus, the European smoketree, Eurasian smoketree, smoke tree, smoke bush, Venetian sumach, or dyer's sumach, is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae.
The species is native to a large area from southern Europe, east across central Asia and the Himalayas to northern China.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cotinus coggygria by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
