Evergreen spindletree
Euonymus japonicus · Celastraceae · 사철나무
Look
- Leaves
- Leaves are opposite, thick, obovate or narrowly elliptic, 3 to 7 cm long and 3 to 4 cm wide. The upper surface is glossy, the underside yellow-green, and the margin has blunt teeth.
- Flowers
- In June to July, pale yellow-green flowers 7 mm across bloom in axillary cymes, with parts in fours.
- Fruit
- The capsule is round, red, 8 to 9 mm across, and splits into 4 to release seeds wrapped in a yellow-red aril. The seeds are white, 7 mm long, and ripen in October.
- Bark
- Bark is grayish black.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, and in Korea south of Hwanghae-do and Gangwon-do.
- Ecology
- Grows well on fertile sandy loam but is not fussy about soil. Shade-tolerant to semi-shade-tolerant, it also grows well in the sun; strongly tolerates sea wind, salt, shade and pollution.