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Euonymus macropterus
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Euonymus macropterus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Euonymus ussuriensis Maxim.
Other taxa in genus
- Euonymus alatus
- Euonymus americanus
- Euonymus atropurpureus
- Euonymus cornutus
- Euonymus echinatus
- Euonymus europaeus
- Euonymus fortunei
- Euonymus frigidus
- Euonymus grandiflorus
- Euonymus hamiltonianus
- Euonymus japonicus
- Euonymus kiautschovicus
- Euonymus latifolius
- Euonymus leiophloeus
- Euonymus lucidus
- Euonymus maackii
- Euonymus myrianthus
- Euonymus nanoides
- Euonymus nanus
- Euonymus obovatus
- Euonymus oxyphyllus
- Euonymus phellomanus
- Euonymus planipes
- Euonymus sanguineus
- Euonymus semenowii
- Euonymus theifolius
- Euonymus tingens
- Euonymus vagans
- Euonymus velutinus
- Euonymus verrucosus
- Euonymus wilsonii
A deciduous shrub 10 ft or more high, of spreading habit, glabrous in all its parts; winter buds spindle-shaped, 1⁄4 in. long. Leaves obovate or oval, mostly slender-pointed, wedge-shaped at the base, finely toothed; 21⁄2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 11⁄2 in. wide; dark glossy green; veins in four or five pairs; stalk 1⁄4 to 1⁄3 in. long. Flowers small, numerous, green, copiously produced in May on slender-stalked cymes 1 to 2 in. long. Fruits 7⁄8 in. wide, pink, four-winged; wings 1⁄4 in. long, thin, narrowing to a rounded end; aril deep red.
Native of Pacific Russia, Korea, Manchuria, and Japan; introduced in 1905 by Messrs Veitch, who distributed it under the name “E. sachalinensis”. It is a very hardy shrub and grows vigorously at Kew. A fine plant, 14 ft in diameter and 10 ft high, with long arching branches, is in the collection there which bears fruit regularly.
