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Leaves are shiny green, compound, alternate, and deciduous with 9-23 leaflets and green, wing-like leafy projections on the rachis.  Twigs are red-brown with hair and conspicuous lenticels.  Bark is warty and red-brown.  Flowers are green-white. Fruit is a cluster of red-brown drupes.  Winged sumac is a shrub to small tree forming thickets in open areas in the east and central U.S.  The fruits are eaten by birds and are very tart in taste.

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