NOUN
- any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus
- greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor
How To Use smoke tree In A Sentence
- _grandiflorus_ (A); pomegranate; white kerria, _Rhodotypos kerrioides; _ smoke tree, _Rhus Cotinus; _ rose locust, _Robinia hispida_ (A); spireas of several kinds; _Stuartia pentagyna_ (A); snowberry, _Symphoricarpos racemosus_ (A); lilacs of many kinds; viburnums of several species, including the European and Japanese snowballs; weigelas of the various kinds; chaste-tree, _Vitex Agnus-Castus; _ Thunberg's barberry; red pepper, _Capsicum frutescens; Plumbago Capensis; _ poinsettia. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
- Bronze-foliaged plants such as hop bush, phormiums, and purple smoke tree are cooling accents.
- Depending upon your point of view, smoke tree or smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria, zones 4 to 8) is a treelike shrub or shrubby tree.
- The new leaves of Cotinus goggygria, Purple Smoke tree, offer a crisp counterpoint to the white bottle brushes. Greetings From Fairegarden-April Bloom Day 2010 « Fairegarden
