Smoketree Smoketrees are deciduous shrubs or small trees with yellow wood. Buds have several scales.
Leaves are alternate, entire margined, and have long, slender petioles.
Flowers are polygamous or dioecious. Fruit is a drupe. Fruiting panicles bear numerous greenish or purplish hairs. Species Leaves are quite oval and have entire leaf margins. It is a shrubby plant or small tree growing to 15 feet.