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The fluffy pink plumes in summer really do look like clouds of smoke.

Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’ – this large shrub puts on a great show with the deep purple leaves turning rich red in autumn.

Large fluffy pink flower plumes appear in summer.

Cotinus 'Candy Floss' – this large shrub has bronzy young leaves, turning green in summer and shades of yellow, orange, and purple in autumn.

The flowers appearing in June and July are a smoky yellow. The Young foliage is yellow with hints of red, turning fiery orange in autumn.

Cotinus coggygria ‘Golden Spirit’ – this is an unusual golden-leaved cultivar.

The leaves turn red and orange in autumn.

Cotinus coggygria ‘Young lady’ – this slow-growing, dwarf variety has huge plumes of smokey-pink flowers and dark green leaves in summer.

C otinus coggygria ‘Velvet Cloak’ – the deep purple leaves turn brilliant red-orange before dropping in autumn.

The Royal Horticultural Society has given it the prestigious Award of Garden Merit (AGM). It has a mass of purple-pink frothy flowers in summer.

Co tinus ‘Grace’ – this classic smoke bush has purple leaves that put on a spectacular show in autumn as they change colour to orangey red.

'Royal Purple' was raised at Lombarts Nursery in Boskoop, Holland. Cotinus is in the same family as and closely related to the sumacs ( Rhus). Foliage retains good color without much fading throughout the growing season. Ovate to obovate leaves (to 3” long) emerge a rich maroon red in spring, and then gradually mature to dark purplish-red to purplish-black in summer.

But it is the foliage that particularly distinguishes 'Royal Purple'. As is the case with all plants of this species, it gets its common name of smoketree (or smokebush) not from the tiny, insignificant, yellowish flowers which appear in branching, terminal panicles (6-8” long) in spring, but from the billowy hairs (attached to elongated stalks on the spent flower clusters) which turn a smoky pink to purplish pink in late spring, thus covering the plant with fluffy, hazy, smoke-like puffs throughout summer. It is a deciduous, upright, loose-spreading, multi-stemmed shrub that typically matures over time to 10-15' tall. ‘Royal Purple’ is a compact, purple-leaved version of the European species. Specific epithet comes from the Greek word kokkugia meaning smoke tree. Genus name comes from the Greek word kotinus meaning olive. Fall color is highly variable, but at its best produces attractive shades of yellow, orange, and purplish-red. Bluish green leaves (to 3” long) are ovate to obovate.

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. It typically matures over time to 10-15’ tall and as wide. Cotinus coggygria, commonly known as smoketree, is an upright, loose-spreading, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub that is native from southern Europe to central China. Pruning a smoke tree to encourage a bushy shrub: Hard prune the shrub back to 6 to 8 (15 20 cm) above the ground during the first two years after planting.