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Poison sumac
Toxicodendron vernix
Poisonous — do not eat it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
About
Toxicodendron vernix, commonly known as poison sumac, or swamp-sumach, is a woody shrub or small tree growing to 9 metres tall. It was previously known as Rhus vernix. This plant is also known as thunderwood, particularly where it occurs in the southern United States.
- Family
- Anacardiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Toxicodendron vernix
- Slug
- toxicodendron-vernix
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Anacardiaceae
- Genus
- Toxicodendron
- Species
- vernix
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 3
- Data completeness
- 43
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