In article , "Mungo \"two sheds\" Toadfoot" writes:
| My neighbour, just moved in, has a profusion of woody, furry-stemmed
| tree-like plants growing in her garden. They sprout 3 or 4 stick-like stems
| from the ground and seem to be very fast growing with red leaves appearing
| at the tops of the stems. It appears that they travel underground before
| sprouting up somewhere else because there's a LOT of them, as well as one or
| two larger ones which, I imagine, are the "parent" plants. The brown stems
| are very soft for their thickness - a half to three-quarters of an inch
| across - and are easy to cut down, but we'd really like to get rid of them
| altogether.

Staghorn sumach. Rhus typhina. Poisonous (irritant) sap.

One solution is to cut them all down and spray new shoots with
glyphosate (or perhaps brushwood killer) as they open their
leaves.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.