Celastrus angulatus Maxim.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Celastrus angulatus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/celastrus/celastrus-angulatus/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

Synonyms

  • C. latifolius Hemsl.

Glossary

apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
capsule
Dry dehiscent fruit; formed from syncarpous ovary.
androdioecious
With only male or only hermaphrodite flowers on individual plants.
orbicular
Circular.
panicle
A much-branched inflorescence. paniculate Having the form of a panicle.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Celastrus angulatus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/celastrus/celastrus-angulatus/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

A deciduous, dioecious shrub of striking appearance and remarkable vigour; ultimately 10 ft high and 20 to 30 ft through, with strong, spreading branches marked with lenticels, becoming corky the second year; pith lamellate. Leaves much larger than in any other hardy species; from 4 to 8 in. long, by 212 to 6 in. wide; broadly oval or almost orbicular, with a short, abrupt, blunt apex, shallow rounded teeth at the margin, and a short stalk from 12 to 1 in. long. Flowers small, greenish, produced in a terminal panicle 4 to 6 in. long and 2 in. wide. Fruit a roundish, obscurely three-sided capsule 12 in. across; when the valves of the capsule burst open, they show the orange-coloured inner surface and the bright red, fleshy covering of the seeds.

Native of the Hupeh province of China; introduced by Messrs Veitch in 1900. The dioecious character of the species is a disadvantage in gardens, as it is necessary to have two plants to obtain fruits, which with such large, spreading ones as this is not always convenient.