Description
Cotinus x Dusky Maiden … A very bushy shrub having circular, dark blue-green wavy foliage … Foliage deep purple through spring-summer and turning ablaze of orange & red in autumn ... Dusky Maiden has a naturally bushy well-branched growth habit & will keep compact habit , unlike other smoke bushes … Making a compact 1.5 metres tall & prunes wonderfully & yet keeps compact branching without pruning … Its sprays of tiny yellow blooms en mass , with dark pink stems … It’s wispy seed heads are a unique silvery-grey … Exceptional cultivar that impresses on all garden measures … Hybrid C. szechuanensis and C. coggygria ‘Velvet Cloak’ (1997) by Peter Moore UK …
Cotinus szechuanensis very distinct species, collected by Roy Lancaster in 1993 below the Wenchuan at 1,000 m in the warm valley of the Min river in West Sichuan … Family:
Anacardiaceae … Cotinus coggygria endemic Sth Europe, east across central Asia and the Himalayas to northern China & Cotinus szechuanensis Sichuan China … Dusky maiden Introduced here by Yamina Rare Plant