Rural School Leaflet 



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fruits are round, waxy berries (dry and hard in winter), borne in loose, 

 slender clusters which, instead of being terminal, are axillary, that is, 

 growing out of the sides of the branch in the axils of the leaves. If the 

 leaves have fallen the leaf scars are still there and are big and broad, 

 not narrow and circular like those of the staghorn sumac. 



Fruit and twigs of the common sumacs: 1, staghorn; 2, fragrant sumac; 3, poison ivy; 4, 



smooth sumac; 5, poison sumac 

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