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a shrub that fakes wildfire smoke with thousands of feathery dead flower stalks.
smoke trickhairy spent flower stems create the smoky haze, not blooms
genus nameCotinus comes from Greek for wild olive
dye legacyits wood yields a yellow-orange dye called young fustic
fall fireleaves blaze orange, red and purple in autumn
toxic kinrelated to cashews, mangoes and poison ivy