Euonymus verrucosus
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Euonymus verrucosus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Euonymus alatus
- Euonymus americanus
- Euonymus atropurpureus
- Euonymus bungeanus
- Euonymus cornutus
- Euonymus europaeus
- Euonymus fortunei
- Euonymus frigidus
- Euonymus grandiflorus
- Euonymus hamiltonianus
- Euonymus japonicus
- Euonymus kiautschovicus
- Euonymus latifolius
- Euonymus lucidus
- Euonymus macropterus
- Euonymus myrianthus
- Euonymus nanus
- Euonymus obovatus
- Euonymus oresbius
- Euonymus oxyphyllus
- Euonymus pendulus
- Euonymus phellomanus
- Euonymus planipes
- Euonymus porphyreus
- Euonymus sanguineus
- Euonymus semenowii
- Euonymus theifolius
- Euonymus tingens
- Euonymus wilsonii
A deciduous shrub of dense-branched, rounded habit 6 to 10 ft high; bark of the younger branches covered densely with conspicuous warts. Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or oval; 1 to 21⁄2 in. long, 1⁄2 to 1 in. wide; finely toothed, slender-pointed, rounded or wedge-shaped at the base; stalk 1⁄12 in. long. Cymes with very slender stalks about 1 in. long, usually three- sometimes seven-flowered. Flowers purplish brown, 1⁄4 in. across, four-parted. Fruit yellowish or red, 1⁄2 in. across; seed black, with an outer coat of orange.
Native of E. Europe and W. Asia; introduced from Austria in 1763. This species is readily recognised among all cultivated spindle-trees by the remarkably warted bark. It bears fruit very sparingly with us, and has little to recommend it as an ornamental shrub.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
The leaves of this species usually colour pink in the autumn.