maybe i can just stop mowing my lawn and live in a forest in about 3 years. Plenty of firewood. It would be crappy firewood, but i'd never run out...
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No matter how you look at it, get it out. Roots and all. If that is a sumac (non-poisonous) or Ailunthus, you don't want it there. If you wait too long, at the rate that thing is growing, you'll never get it all.
I just passed an abandoned lot down on the other side of town, its LOADED with sumac.......all the leaves are flourescent orange/bright yellow. I'll take a picture of it later this evening.....
This is true. I have a few spots that I can not get to with a shovel to dig out the root system. I pretty much have to hack at it weekly.
yeah, the lot next to my yard (read: fifty feet away from this tree) is loaded with them. it's just a big f'n mess of what looks like underbrush. I guess that when they are growing dense, they don't get quite as big because of the competition.
Wait till I post the pictures of it later! 
Or an apple, peach, or pear tree infestation?! Why is it we always end up with a surplus of useless crap?!
It'd be 40 years til you would reap the benefits, Danno. This way, with a sumac or whatever it is, it'll be 40ft tall in three years!
clemsonfor
Minister of Fire
If you dont get all the roots that such a weed tree i bet it grows back.
As far as how bit it will get with rain, prolly over your house easy in a few years!
As far as how bit it will get with rain, prolly over your house easy in a few years!
TimJ
Minister of Fire
Oh jeez... so this thing will come back... now I have to go back in there and dig out the stump.
Ive got this tree, creeping charlie, and we have blackberry thorns growing all over the back... I was thinking I need to agent orange the yard... now I wonder if I might need to step it up... napalm strike.
Ive got this tree, creeping charlie, and we have blackberry thorns growing all over the back... I was thinking I need to agent orange the yard... now I wonder if I might need to step it up... napalm strike.
We don't have any of those Trees of Heaven around here . . . not that I've seen at least. As others have said this does bear a passing resemblance to stagnorn sumac . . . which is more of an over-grown bush than an actual tree. My wife hates staghorn sumac for some reason and we've cut most of the sumac on our property down and burned it . . . and it burns up fast -- one of the faster burning woods as the center is kind of pithy. One benefit with staghorn sumac is that you can use the "flowers" to make a drink that tastes a lot like lemonade.
In any case . . . Tree of Heaven, staghorn sumac or poison sumac . . . seems like the verdict is to just get rid of it.
In any case . . . Tree of Heaven, staghorn sumac or poison sumac . . . seems like the verdict is to just get rid of it.
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