Hamilton's spindletree
Euonymus hamiltonianus · Celastraceae · 참빗살나무
Look
- Leaves
- Lanceolate-oblong leaves are opposite, 5 to 15 cm long and 2 to 8 cm wide, pointed at the tip. The margin has uneven, blunt, fine teeth.
- Flowers
- In May, 3 to 12 pale green flowers in fours, about 10 mm across, are borne in axillary cymes on last year's twigs.
- Fruit
- Four-ridged, inverted triangular-heart-shaped capsules (8 to 10 mm long and wide) ripen red and split into four; orange seeds ripen from mid-October to early November.
- Bark
- Grayish white and smooth.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- Afghanistan to Bhutan, China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula (Hwanghae-do, Gangwon-do, Gyeonggi-do, Chungcheongnam/buk-do, Jeollanam/buk-do, Jeju-do).
- Ecology
- Grows on foothills, mid-slopes and river basins and does well in sun or shade; strongly cold-hardy, and described as salt-tolerant enough to grow well in coastal regions.