Plant: Royal Purple - Smoke Tree

Smoke Tree · Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'

$50.00

Size: 3 gal

Light

Full Sun

Bloom

SpringSummer

Mature size

15 ft tall20 ft wide

More about this plant

Royal Purple is an award winning smoketree with striking deep purple foliage that turns gold, orange, purple and red in fall. It makes an erect, open, spreading multi stemmed shrub or small tree, 10 to 15 feet tall and 15 to 20 feet wide. Small yellow flowers in spring are followed by billowy pink to purple panicles 6 to 8 inches long that give the plant its smoky look through summer. It wants full sun and takes clay through shallow rocky soil at any pH, with good drainage and occasional dryness, and resists deer, drought, disease and insect pests. Use it as an accent, border, screen or specimen. The resinous sap can cause contact dermatitis.

  • Full Sun
  • Grows to 15 ft tall and 20 ft wide
  • Blooms in spring, summer
  • Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
  • Deciduous foliage

Plant description

Royal Purple is an award winning smoketree with striking deep purple foliage that turns gold, orange, purple and red in fall. It makes an erect, open, spreading multi stemmed shrub or small tree, 10 to 15 feet tall and 15 to 20 feet wide. Small yellow flowers in spring are followed by billowy pink to purple panicles 6 to 8 inches long that give the plant its smoky look through summer. It wants full sun and takes clay through shallow rocky soil at any pH, with good drainage and occasional dryness, and resists deer, drought, disease and insect pests. Use it as an accent, border, screen or specimen. The resinous sap can cause contact dermatitis.

Flowers
Small insignificant yellow flowers in spring are followed by showy pink to purple billowy panicles 6 to 8 inches long that read as smoke.
Foliage
Simple ovate to obovate purple leaves with entire margins, about 3 inches long, turning gold, orange, purple and red in fall.
Native range
Southern Europe to central China

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