Common Name:
Sumac
About 200 species of deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs, sometime climbing, many are more or less poisonous. Leaves alternate, simple or compound, leaflet entire or serrate. Flowers very small, usually unisexual, 5 petals, 5 stamens, calyx deeply 5-lobed. Fruit a small dry drupe.
Rhus: the Greek, rhous, for the plant.
Pronunciation:
roos
Family:
Anacardiaceae