Golden Spirit Smoke Tree

This tree is seldom seen here in Tennessee and it's beautiful! Cotinus coggygria, commonly known as smoke tree, is an upright, loose-spreading, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub that is native from southern Europe to central China.  Bluish green leaves (to 3” long) are ovate to obovate. Fall color is highly variable, but at its best produces attractive shades of yellow, orange, and purplish-red. This product is for sale in store only; no shipping allowed. Growth Habit It typically matures over time to 10-15’ tall and as wide. It gets its common name of smoketree (or smokebush) not from the tiny, insignificant, yellowish flowers which appear in branching, terminal panicles (to 6-8” long) in spring, but from the billowy hairs (attached to elongated stalks on the spent flower clusters) which turn a smokey pink to purplish pink in summer, thus covering the tree with fluffy, hazy, smoke-like puffs throughout summer. Care Easy to grow in average soils; requires excellent drainage. Tolerates p