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Euonymus vidalii

Interesting Facts

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Description

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Family Celastraceae

The Celastraceae are trees and shrubs comprising about 50 genera and 800 species that are sometimes climbing or vining. The leaves are simple and alternate or opposite; stipules are small and caducous or absent. The flowers are bisexual or sometimes functionally unisexual , actinomorphic , and are small and often greenish. The calyx comprises 4 or 5 usually basally connate sepals. The corolla is rarely absent or more commonly consists of 4 or 5 distinct petals. The androecium consists of 4 or 5 or rarely 10 distinct stamens that alternate with the petals. The gynoecium is a single compound pistil of 2-5 carpels, a single short style, and a superior or rarely half inferior ovary with 2-5 locules, each containing usually 2 axile ovules. An annular nectary disk surrounds and is usually adnate to the ovary. The fruit is a capsule, berry, samara, or drupe. -- Gerald Carr.

Genus Euonymus

Trees or shrubs , the latter sometimes scandent . Leaves oppsite; stipules caducous . Flowers bisexual , 4-5-merous. Calyx flat or recurved. Disc broad, fleshy , 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, rounded , spreading , often with coloured veins. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the disc. Ovary sunken in the disc; style short. Fruit a capsule, 3-5-lobed, angled or winged , rarely echinate , dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 1-3 in each cell , enclosed in a fleshy aril.

A large subcosmopolitan genus of c. 176 species in the Himalayas in Pakistan and India, China, Japan, Malayasia, Europe and N. America. Represented in Pakistan by 5 species, of these E. japonicus is cultivated.[1]

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Franch. & Sav. Publication : Enum. Pl. Jap. ii. 312.

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Euonymus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 119 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

E. alata (Burning Bush) · E. alata 'Chicago Fire' (Burning Bush) · E. alata 'Compacta' (Cork Bush) · E. alata 'Fire Ball' (Cork Bush) · E. alata 'Monstrosus' (Burning Bush) · E. alata 'Rudy Haag' (Burning Bush) · E. alatus (Winged Euonymus) · E. alatus var. apterus (Winged Euonymus) · E. alatus 'Compacta' (Burning Bush) · E. alatus 'Compactus' (Dwarf Burning Bush) · E. alatus 'Odom' (Little Moses® Burning Bush) · E. alatus 'Pipzam' (Pipsqueak Burning Bush) · E. alatus 'Rudy Haag' (Rudy Haag Burning Bush) · E. alatus 'Select' (Fireball Burning Bush) · E. alatus 'Timber Creek' (Chicago Fire Burning Bush) · E. americana (Brook Euonymus) · E. americanus (American Strawberry-Bush) · E. aptera (Corky Spindletree) · E. atropurpurea (Eastern Wahoo) · E. atropurpurea var. atropurpurea (Eastern Wahoo) · E. atropurpurea var. cheatumii (Eastern Wahoo) · E. atropurpureus (Burning Bush) · E. atropurpureus atropurpureus (Eastern Burningbush) · E. atropurpureus var. cheatumii (Eastern Wahoo) · E. bungeana (Winterberry Euonymus) · E. bungeana 'North Platte' (Winterberry Euonymus) · E. bungeana 'Pink Lady' (Winterberry Euonymus) · E. bungeanum (Winterberry) · E. bungeanus (Winterberry Euonymus) · E. carnosus (Fleshy-Flowered Spindletree) · E. clivicolus (Sail-Fin Molly) · E. europaea (European Euonymus) · E. europaea 'Aldenhamensis' (European Euonymus) · E. europaea 'Atrorubens' (European Euonymus) · E. europaea 'Red Ace' (European Euonymus) · E. europaea 'Red Cap' (European Euonymus) · E. europaeus (European Euonymus) · E. fortunei (Climbing Euonymus) · E. fortunei (Turcz.) Hand.-Mazz. 'Emerald Leader' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei (Turcz.) Hand.-Mazz. 'Emerald'n Gold' (Emerald 'n Gold Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Golden Prince' (Golden Prince Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei var. fortunei (Winter Creeper) · E. fortunei var. minimus (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei var. radicans (Winter Creeper) · E. fortunei var. vegetus (Bigleaf Wintercreeper) · E. fortunei 'Acutus' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Blondy' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Canadale Gold' (Canadale Gold Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Coloratus' (Purple Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Emerald & Gold' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Emerald Gaiety' (Emerald Gaiety Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Gold Splash' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Green Lane' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Harlequin' (Climbing Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Interbolwji' (Blondy® Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Ivory Jade' (Ivory Jade Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Kewensis' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Longwood' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Moonshadow' (Moonshadow Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Moon Shadow' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Niagara Green' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Sarcoxie' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Sheridan Gold' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Silver Queen' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Sunny Lane' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Sunshine' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Sunspot' (Sunspot Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Surespot' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. fortunei 'Wolong Ghost' (Wintercreeper Euonymus) · E. hamiltoniana (Hamilton's Spindletree) · E. hamiltonianus var. sieboldianus (Japanese Spindle Tree) · E. japonica (Japanese Euonymus) · E. japonica var. Aureo Marginata (Golden Euonymus) · E. japonica var. Greenspire Bekko (Greenspire Euonymus) · E. japonica'Aureo-marginata' (Box Leaf Euonymus) · E. japonica'Aureo-variegata' (Gold Spot Euonymus) · E. japonica 'Bekkomasaki' (Japanese Euonymus) · E. japonica 'Chollipo' (Japanese Euonymus) · E. japonica'Golden Maiden' (Golden Maiden Euonymus) · E. japonica 'Green Spire' (Japanese Euonymus) · E. japonica 'Microphyllus Butterscotch' (Boxleaf Euonymus) · E. japonica 'Ovatus Aureus' (Japanese Euonymus) · E. japonica 'Rokujo' (Rokujo Japanese Euonymus) · E. japonica 'Rykujo' (Japanese Euonymus) · E. japonica 'Silver Princess' (Boxleaf Euonymus) · E. japonica 'Sunny Delight' (Boxleaf Euonymus) · E. japonicus (Japanese Spindle Tree) · E. japonicus 'Aureo-Marginatus' (Golden Euonymus) · E. japonicus 'Aureovariegatus' (Gold Spot Euonymus) · E. japonicus 'Butterscotch' (Butterscotch Euonymus) · E. japonicus 'Chollipo' (Chollipo Euonymus) · E. japonicus 'Grandifolius' (Japanese Euonymus) · E. japonicus 'Green Spire' (Green Spire Euonymus) · E. japonicus 'Microphyllus' (Boxleaf Euonymus) · E. japonicus 'Microphyllus Variegatus' (Boxleaf Euonymus) · E. japonicus 'Moness' (Silver Princess" Boxleaf Euonymus) · E. japonicus 'Silver King' (Silver King Euonymus) · E. kiautschovica (Creeping Strawberry Bush) · E. kiautschovicus (Creeping Strawberry Bush) · E. kiautschovicus 'Manhattan' (Manhattan Euonymus)

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Footnotes

  1. "Euonymus". in Flora of Pakistan Page 3.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-07-21