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Euonymus
''Euonymus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family Celastraceae. Common names vary widely among different species and between different English-speaking countries, but include spindle (or spindle tree), burning-bush, strawberry-bush, wahoo, wintercreeper, or simply euonymus. It has about 140 species''Euonymus''. Flora of China.Du, C., et al. (2013) Revision of three species of ''Euonymus'' (Celastraceae) from China. ''Phytotaxa'' 109(1) 45-53. of deciduous and evergreen shrubs, small trees and lianas. They are mostly native plant, native to East Asia, extending to the Himalayas, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euonymus Americanus
''Euonymus americanus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae. Common names include strawberry bush, American strawberry bush, bursting-heart, hearts-a-bustin, and hearts-bustin'-with-love. It is native to the eastern United States, its distribution extending as far west as Texas. It has also been recorded in Ontario. This is a deciduous shrub growing up to tall. The oppositely arranged leaves are leathery or papery in texture and measure up to long. Flowers are borne in the leaf axils on peduncles up to long. The yellow-green sepals are long and the greenish or reddish petals above are smaller. The fruit capsule is about wide with a red warty or spiny covering. The capsule splits into five sections, revealing seeds covered in bright red arils.Ma, J. and G. Moore''Euonymus americanus'' L.International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF). United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service. The seeds are dispersed by animals. Deer have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euonymus Fortunei
''Euonymus fortunei'', the spindle, Fortune's spindle, winter creeper or wintercreeper, is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to east Asia, including China, Korea, the Philippines and Japan. ''E. fortunei'' is highly invasive and damaging in the United States, causing the death of trees and forest in urban areas. Description It is an evergreen shrub which grows as a vine if provided with support. As such it grows to , climbing by means of small rootlets on the stems, similar to ivy (an example of convergent evolution, as the two species are not related). Like ivy, it also has a sterile non-flowering juvenile climbing or creeping phase, which on reaching high enough into the crowns of trees to get more light, develops into an adult, flowering phase without climbing rootlets. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 2–6 cm long and 1–3 cm broad, with finely serrated margins. The flowers are inconspicuous, 5& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euonymus Europaeus
''Euonymus europaeus'', the spindle, European spindle, or common spindle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to much of Europe, where it inhabits the edges of forest, hedges and gentle slopes, tending to thrive on nutrient-rich, chalky and salt-poor soils. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree. Description ''Euonymus europaeus'' grows to tall, rarely , with a stem up to in diameter. The leaves are opposite, lanceolate to elliptical, 3–8 cm long and 1–3 cm broad, with a finely serrated edge. Leaves are dark green in summer. Autumn colour ranges from yellow-green to reddish-purple, depending on environmental conditions. The hermaphrodite flowers are produced in late spring and are insect-pollinated. They are rather inconspicuous and small with yellowish-green petals, and grow in cymes of 3–8 together. The capsular fruit ripens in autumn, and is red to purple or pink in colour and approximately 1–1.5 cm wide. When ripe, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euonymus Alatus
''Euonymus alatus'', known variously as burning bush, winged euonymus, winged spindle, and winged spindle-tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to central and northern China, Japan, and Korea. It is a popular ornamental plant in gardens and parks due to its bright pink or orange fruit and attractive autumn color: The common name "burning bush" refers to its bright red autumn color. The cultivars 'Compactus' and 'Fire Ball' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Description This deciduous shrub grows to tall, often wider than tall. As with the related '' Euonymus phellomanus'', the stems are notable for their four corky ridges or "wings". The word ''alatus'' (or ''alata'', used formerly) is Latin for "winged," in reference to the winged branches. These structures develop from a cork cambium deposited in longitudinal grooves in the twigs' first year, unlike similar wings in other plants such as '' Quercus macrocar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euonymus Carnosus
''Euonymus carnosus'', called the fleshyflowered spindletree, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Euonymus'', native to southeast and southcentral China, Taiwan, the Bonin Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, and Japan. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It is based on assessment of the plants' performance under UK growing conditions. It includes the full range of cultivated p .... References carnosus Plants described in 1886 Taxa named by William Hemsley (botanist) {{Celastraceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euonymus Cochinchinensis
''Euonymus cochinchinensis'' is a tree of tropical Asia in the staff vine family Celastraceae. The specific epithet ' refers to the species being native to Indo-China. Description ''Euonymus cochinchinensis'' grows as a small tree up to tall. The flowers are greenish yellow. The fruits are obovoid to roundish in shape. Distribution and habitat ''Euonymus cochinchinensis'' grows naturally in Hainan, Taiwan, Indo-China, Malesia and Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n .... Its habitat is coastal forests. References cochinchinensis Trees of China Flora of Hainan Trees of Taiwan Trees of Indo-China Trees of Malesia Trees of Papua New Guinea Plants described in 1894 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Celastraceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euonymus Cornutus
''Euonymus cornutus'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Euonymus'', native to Tibet, central China and Myanmar. Its putative variety ''Euonymus cornutus'' var. ''quinquecornutus'', called the fivehorned spindle, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It is based on assessment of the plants' performance under UK growing conditions. It includes the full range of cultivated p .... References cornutus Plants described in 1893 Taxa named by William Hemsley (botanist) {{Celastraceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euonymus Dielsianus
''Euonymus dielsianus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae. It was first described by the German botanists Ludwig E. T. Loesener and Ludwig Diels Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (24 September 1874 – 30 November 1945) was a German botanist. Diels was born in Hamburg, the son of the classical scholar Hermann Alexander Diels. From 1900 to 1902 he traveled together with Ernst Georg Pritzel thro ... in 1900. The plant is mostly found in southwestern portion of China, at elevations between 200 and 1,600 meters above the sea level. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15226083 dielsianus Trees of China Plants described in 1900 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euonymus Atropurpureus
''Euonymus atropurpureus'' is a species of shrub in the bittersweet family. It has the common names American wahoo, eastern wahoo, burningbush and hearts bursting with love. It is native to eastern North America. Distribution and habitat This species is primarily found in the Midwestern United States, but its range extends from southern Ontario south to northern Florida and Texas. It grows in low meadows, open slopes, open woodland, stream banks and prairies, in moist soils, especially thickets, valleys, and forest edges. Description It is a deciduous shrub growing to 8 m tall, with stems up to 10 cm diameter. The bark is gray, smooth, and lightly fissured. The twigs are dark purplish-brown, slender, sometimes four-angled or slightly winged. The leaves are opposite, elliptical, 8.5–11.3 cm long and 3.2–5.5 cm broad, abruptly long pointed at the tip, and with a finely serrated margin; they are green above, paler and often with fine hairs beneath, and turn br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euonymus Fimbriatus
''Euonymus fimbriatus'', also known as the fringed spindle tree, is a plant from the genus ''Euonymus''. This tree comes from the Himalayas. This tree can grow up to tall and it is deciduous In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed Leaf, leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, aft .... References External links * http://en.hortipedia.com/wiki/Euonymus_fimbriatus {{Taxonbar, from=Q12839338 Euonymus, fimbriatus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
