Landscape Plants

Three species of shrubs and trees, usually deciduous, wood is orange-yellow.  Leaves simple, entire, spirally arranged, long petiole.  Flowers small but in large terminal, loose clusters (panicles), usually yellow.  Fruit is a small, dry, obliquely drupe.  Found in North America, southern Europe, and eastern Himalaya and central China.
Cotinus: from Greek kotinos, wild olive; application uncertain.