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Cotinus coggygria at Osaka Metropolitan University Botanical Gardens, Osaka, in June 2024. OM-1 + M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 Macro.

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plumes of #pink #CotinusCoggygria

I passed this unreal tree today on my way to meet my daughter for lunch. At lunch, my daughter told me she wanted to walk me home on a particular path to show me a really cool tree that I might want to photograph. It was the same one, of course.
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Looking up at the sun and sky through a smoke tree, or Cotinus coggygria. The tree is an unreal pink color against the vivid boot sky. It has pink feather stands like s feather boots, with little dots that are either dark against a light background, or bright gold if they're in the right path of the sun

Another view looking up at the same tree. This time there's a dark silhouette of trunk and branches and trees, then the pink fluffy stuff, then blue sky

Looking up at the same tree again, but this time not in the same direction as the sun, so we see more of the color subtleties, with specks of green amongst the pink

One more view, this time a close up of a branch covered in pink stands and speckled with green and gold dots like elaborate confetti

The trusty ID app tells me this is a #CotinusCoggygria, the European smoketree, Eurasian smoketree, smoke tree, smoke bush, Venetian sumach, or dyer's sumach… so many names!!

It’s from the family Anacardiaceae.

This unique tree is native to a large area from southern Europe, east across central Asia and the Himalayas to northern China.

And yes, those hair-like structures are giving, but somehow coarse and sturdy at the same time. Haha. That’s the only way I can explain it.

Perhaps what I think, a tumble weed would feel like 🤷🏻‍♂️🤔

Anyways, the diversity of flora in our world is just astounding, don’t you think?

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