sumac

• The magenta-colored sumac is a tart, powdered spice. —  Express Milwaukee
• They look like parrot feathers, party decorations, something somehow oriental and exotic, while in fact, sumac (yes a relative of poison ivy but this one won't make you need an ocean of calamine lotion) is a common roadside weedy woody tree. —  Fragments From Floyd
• The alumina combines with both the oil and the sumac, and the resulting mordant produces a better and more brilliant red with the alizarine. —  The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
• The wand of the nahikàï was made by paring down a straight slender stick of aromatic sumac, about three feet long, to the general thickness of less than half an inch, but leaving a head or button at one end. —  The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468
• Of course we do not mean the poisonous swamp-sumac, but that which grows along the fences and on the edges of the woods. —  What Might Have Been Expected

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