Euonymus fortunei

Climbing euonymus ( Euonymus fortunei )

The climbing euonymus ( Euonymus fortunei ), also called Kriechspindel, is a plant of the genus spindle bushes.

Description

The climbing euonymus grows as evergreen, ascending or creeping shrub, with the size of dwarf forms to vary about 10 meters in height. The branches are round, brown to brownish green, sometimes streaked and densely covered with leaves. These are smooth and ovate to ovate -elliptic with slightly notched up sawn edge, obtuse to wedge base and blunt to pointed tip. They are 2 to 5.5 inches long, 2 to 3.5 inches wide and either sitting or provided with a 2-9 mm long petiole. The inflorescences bear a few fourfold flowers with about 5 millimeters in diameter, sitting at 5 millimeters long stems. The sepals are semi-circular, whitish or greenish petals almost spherical. As fruit brown to reddish-brown capsules are formed with red aril.

Occurrence

The species occurs in forests and scrubland in South and South-East Asia from Pakistan to Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, where it grows on soil or rocky terrain. In horticultural cultivated the type and especially its climate adapted to the respective forms of culture is spread worldwide, with the exception of arctic - continental and arid climates.

Use

The climbing euonymus is used as a ground cover or in hedges. There have been bred with different looks and different climate claims numerous cultivars. In Central and Western Europe form shapes with white colored and yellow colored ( variegated ) leaves ( eg Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald Gold', E. fortunei ' Gracilis ') the focus of production, since they are used in large numbers to the grave planting.

Evidence

• Spindle tree plants