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"ASSUK LIFTED UP SOME UNDERUTILIZED TREES
FOR URBAN USE /NE OF THEM !MERICAN
SMOKETREE #OTINUS OBOVATUS WAS GROW
ING JUST OUTSIDE THE CONFERENCE ROOM
DOORS ON THE (OFSTRA 5NIVERSITY CAMPUS
WHERE A MATURE SPECIMEN STOOD PROTEC
TIVELY BEHIND A NEWLY PLANTED YOUNGSTER
!MERICAN SMOKETREE IS NATIVE TO THE 53
3OUTH AND -IDWEST
.ATURALLY AND BY TRAINING !MERICAN SMO
KETREE HAS A MORE TREELIKE HABIT THAN
%UROPEAN SMOKETREE # COGGYGRIA AND
IT MATURES UP TO FEET M TALL AND
FEET TO M WIDETWICE AS
BIG AS # COGGYGRIA )T IS HARDY TO ZONE
OR DEPENDING ON WHICH REFERENCE YOU
CONSULT )T IS DEER RESISTANT AND TOLERANT
OF DROUGHT AND POOR SOILS BUT DOESNT LIKE
TO HAVE WET FEET FOR PROLONGED PERIODS
-ISSOURI "OTANICAL 'ARDEN VOTED IT ONE OF
ITS h4RIED AND 4ROUBLE&REEv TREE SPECIES
4HE FLOWER PANICLES
ARE NOT QUITE AS
SHOWY AS THOSE OF %UROPEAN SMOKET
REE BUT !MERICAN SMOKETREES FALL COLOR
CAN BE REALLY SPECTACULAR WITH SOME
COMBINATION OF YELLOW RED ORANGE AND
PURPLE 4HE -ISSOURI "OTANICAL 'ARDEN
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