How much does a short-lived tree, the staghorn sumac sapling, cost per plant? What does it look like, is it harmful, and how do you grow it?

The staghorn sumac is also known as deerhorn lacquer, torch lacquer, and Canadian sumac. It is cultivated more extensively in the provinces (regions) north of the Yellow River basin, and is mainly used for greening barren hills and also as a landscape forest tree species for saline-alkali wasteland.So how much does a staghorn sumac sapling cost per plant? What does it look like? Is it harmful to people? How do you cultivate and plant it? According to records in the Anacardiaceae literature, the staghorn sumac is a deciduous small tree in the genus Rhus of the family Anacardiaceae. Its odd-pinnate compound leaves are alternate and oblong to lanceolate. The upright panicle is terminal, and the fruit cluster is bright red. The fruit is oblate-spherical, with red bristles, densely clustered into a torch shape. After the fruit matures in September it remains for a long time, and after autumn the leaves turn red, which is very spectacular.

About how much does a staghorn sumac sapling cost per plant?

Prices differ for different specifications and sizes. The following is compiled reference material for reference only.

Is the staghorn sumac harmful to people?

1. As an introduced species, the staghorn sumac has a very strong reproductive capacity. Although whether the staghorn sumac is an invasive tree species is still undetermined, it is already imperative to control its mass reproduction within small areas.

2. Because the staghorn sumac can secrete a unique chemical substance, this makes it very difficult for other plants to grow around it. And because it is low and dense and blocks out the sun, plants growing beneath it are greatly affected, so the harm to crops is very great. Although farmers have already cut down the staghorn sumac by the roadsides, the cutting instead stimulated its spread, and spreading seedlings still appear in the farmland, forcing farmers to cut them with sickles and throw them at the edge of the field to bake in the sun. But even so, the staghorn sumac still cannot be eliminated.

How do you cultivate and plant the staghorn sumac?

1. Seed

For sowing staghorn sumac, the seeds are relatively small, the seed coat is hard, and the outside is covered with red stinging hairs. Before sowing, rub them with alkaline water to remove the red fuzz outside the seed coat and the waxy substance on the seed coat. Then soak them in 85°C hot water for 5 minutes, take them out and bury them mixed with moist sand, place them indoors at 20°C to promote germination, and sprinkle an appropriate amount of water depending on evaporation. When buds appear after 20 days, they can be sown. The sowing rate is 7 to 10 jin per mu, with a row spacing of 35 cm. Scatter the seeds into furrows 2 cm deep, then cover with fine soil and make small ridges to help preserve soil moisture. Spray water appropriately to keep the soil moist. After 20 days they basically all emerge. In the same year the seedlings reach 80 cm in height and 1 to 1.5 cm in ground diameter.

2. Root cuttings

The staghorn sumac has many lateral roots, and they extend horizontally. Each year when saplings are lifted from the nursery, select lateral roots with a thickness of more than 1 cm, cut them into root segments 20 cm long, and according to the polarity of the root, with the top upward and the stem end downward, at a plant spacing of 40×30 cm, insert them vertically into the prepared nursery ground. After insertion, cover the top of the root segment with 2 to 4 cm of thin soil, and spray water frequently to keep it moist. Usually adventitious buds first sprout and break through the soil to grow new branches, and then roots form and they survive. In the same year the seedlings reach more than 1 m in height.

3. Root sucker propagation

Around staghorn sumacs more than two years old, many root suckers often sprout. They can be selected and retained according to row spacing, and care should be taken to remove root suckers and excess lateral branches to cultivate strong saplings with a good tree form. In the same year the seedlings can reach 1.5 to 2 m in height. After propagation, they can be transplanted in mid-March of the second year. The planting row and plant spacing is 50×40 cm. Do a good job of watering, loosening the soil, and weeding, apply fertilizer once each between May and June, and stop water and fertilizer before the end of July. The staghorn sumac generally does not suffer from diseases. Seedling-raised plants and root-cutting plants can reach 3 to 5 cm in diameter at breast height in 3 years, and root-sucker plants in 2 years, and can be used for afforestation.