Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'
Smoke Tree
Large, bushy grower with attractive, rounded leaves. New spring leaves are a rich maroon-red, maturing to a deep wine-purple over summer, then turning more red in autumn. Large, pink, feathery flower plumes appear in spring giving the tree a smoke-like appearance.
Exotic
Deciduous
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10 Year Size
Family: Anacardiaceae, cashew or sumac family, a family of flowering plants mostly native to tropical North America, South America, Africa, and India.
Genus: Cotinus, cotinus (Latin, noun), meaning 'a shrub that gives or furnishes a purple colour', a name given by Pliny the Elder (AD 23/24 - 79) to a shrub growing in the Apennine Mountains, Italy from which the Romans extracted a purple dye. Pliny derived this name from the Greek noun κότινος (kótinos, 'wild olive tree [Olea europaea]'). Commonly known as smoke bush or smoketree, a genus of flowering large shrubs and small trees native to the warm temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Species: Cotinus coggygria, coggygria, derived from the Greek noun κοκκυγέα (kokkūgéā), which is the Greek name for this species.
Cultivar: Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'
Synonyms: Rhus cotinus 'Royal Purple'
Common Name: Smoke Tree