Amanda shorey Skunk Sumac Draft 9/6

Green, three-leafed veiny, dark brown parts indicative of damage much like a bruise. Red stem and red primary veins. Scalloped edges with a symmetry on the central leaf ending in a point at the center. Smells remotely like dust, dirt, and musk. Evidently ripped from its mother stem judging by the rough uneven edge of its stem. Two smaller leaves on the left and right, the center one being quite larger. The top side is darker green and waxy, with rippling causing the material between the veins to curl upward at the edges. The underside is a softer, fuzzy texture and a more pastel shade of the same green. The damage has caused complete holes in the leaves allowing a window yo the other side. The stem has tiny little hairs making it fuzzy and giving it a slightly white edge. The largest leaf is symmetrical with four scallops on each half mirroring each other, but the two smaller leaves both have smaller scallops on the side closest to the largest central leaf. There is a tiny little hard red growth on the left leaf, and if the leaf were conscious I'm sure it would have had it lasered off. The underside of the hard red growth shows a slight bump also, also like the backing to an earring. The general leaf shape resembles a diamond but the center slightly moved upwards. It casts a soft shadow showing that it allows light through it. One brown spot of damage on the biggest leaf serpentines along a vein and fades at the end like a pencil being picked up after writing a "y". The veins are asymmetric and don't stem across from one another on each side of a single leaflette. The leftmost leaflette has a straight cut from the stemming point extending down to the left and ending at the second scallops from the edge. This cut goes through the leaf to the other side, it is 29 mm long. There are two less severe parallel cuts north on the leaflette of 9mm and 14mm. The little red-hard growth has a small brown squiggly mark around it that runs from the center of the leaflette vein to the edge., total displacement of 7mm. The center leaflette scallop distances are- from the outside to the center: 3mm, 9mm, 7mm, 6.7mm. The red coloration from the stem extends into the center leaflette vein by 26.5mm. The redness extends 17mm onto the right leaflette vein, but only 10mm onto the left leaflette vein. The left leaflet has discoloration of the leaf where two patches are distinctly more pale and yellowish than the rest of the leaf, reminding one of tie-dye shirts. The center leaflette on the first from the step scallop on the right has the same discoloration next to a slug-shaped brown mark of dry leaf. This mark affects the structure of the leaflette causing it to fold like a hard taco shell opening downwards. From the end of the stem to the point where the leaves grow is 22mm.