Cotinus coggygria f. purpureus
Cotinus coggygria f. purpureus
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Genus
Cotinus
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Species
coggygria
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Variety Type
Ornamental
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Variety
Cotinus
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Growth Rate
Moderate to fast.
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Foliage
Leaves are almost oval in shape and up to about 10cm in length. Generally a blue-green colour that turns to an impressive yellow-orange in autumn.
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Bark
New growth is generally purplish brown with many small lenticels. Emits a strong odor when crushed.
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Ornamental Fruit
Fruit is an insignificant small drupe.
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Flowers
Individually the flowers are quite insignificant, but the infloresence as a whole gives the impression of a large smokey haze above the plant, which gives rise to the plants common name of smoke bush.
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Height (m)
3
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Width (m)
3