Sentence:  There was a Steinway grand piano [...] a cherrywood writing table, and an assortment of floor lamps, table lamps, and "bridge" lamps that sprang up all over the congested inscape like <WSD>sumac</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus "Rhus" and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the (elm-leaved sumac), (Sicilian sumac), or (tanner's sumac) ("Rhus coriaria").