Euonymus wilsonii
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Euonymus wilsonii' 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 verrucosus
An evergreen shrub up to 20 ft high, of lax or scandent habit, quite free from down in leaf and twig; young shoots slender. Leaves 3 to 6 in. long, 1 to 13⁄4 in. wide, lanceolate, wedge-shaped at the base, gradually tapered at the apex to a long slender point; shallowly and rather distinctly toothed; conspicuously veined beneath; stalk 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. long. Fruits four-lobed, borne on a main-stalk 11⁄2 in. long; they are clothed with conspicuous, awl-shaped spines 1⁄5 in. long, and are altogether about 3⁄4 in. across; aril yellow.
Introduced from Mt Omei in W. China by Wilson in 1904, and now growing vigorously in the collection at Kew. It is distinct from cultivated spindle-trees in the remarkable hedgehog-like fruits.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
† E. echinatus Wall. – This native of the Himalaya as far west as Kashmir is, like E. wilsonii, a climbing species with prickly fruits. In cultivation by 1827, it is figured in Bot. Mag., t.2767, but is now rare in cultivation.