扶芳藤 Euonymus fortunei

  • Scientific Name: Euonymus fortunei (Turczaninow) Handel-Mazzetti
  • Ref: Symb. Sin. 7: 660. 1933.
  • Synonym: Elaeodendron fortunei Turczaninow, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 36: 603. 1863, nom. cons. prop.; Euonymus fortunei var. acuminatus F. H. Chen & M. C. Wang; E. fortunei var. patens (Rehder) Handel-Mazzetti; E. hederaceus Champion ex Bentham; E. japonicus Thunberg var. acutus Rehder; E. japonicus var. chinensis Pampanini; E. japonicus var. radicans Miquel; E. kiautschovicus Loesener; E. kiautschovicus var. patens (Rehder) Loesener; E. patens Rehder; E. radicans (Miquel) Siebold ex Handel-Mazzetti var. alticola Handel-Mazzetti; E. wensiensis J. W. Ren & D. S. Yao.
  • English Common Name: spindle, Fortune’s spindle, winter creeper, wintercreeper
  • Chinese Common Name: 扶芳藤 fúfāng∙téng
  • Japanese Common Name: ツルマサキ [蔓柾/蔓正木] tsurumasaki
  • Family: Celastraceae
  • Genus: Euonymus
  • Distribution: Common in woodlands, scrub, and forests, often cultivated in gardens; near sea level to above 3400 m. Anhui, Fujian, Hebei, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan (?cultivated), Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam; cultivated in Africa, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America].
  • Photo:12/05/2009, Hangzhou
  • Type: Elaeodendron fortunei Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat Mosc. 36 (2): 603. 1863. Zhejiang,1845,R. Fortune 46A(W)。
 Evergreen subshrubs, ascending or procumbent on ground or rock, trees sometimes dwarfed, to 10 m tall; branches and twigs rounded, sometimes striate, usually brown or green-brown. Leaves densely arranged on branches; petiole 2-9 mm, sometimes sessile; leaf blade variously ovate or ovate-elliptic, 2-5.5 × 2-3.5 cm, glabrous, base nearly truncate, at times ± cuneate, margin crenulate to serrate, apex obtuse to acute; lateral veins 4-6 pairs, invisible. Peduncle usually with few flowers; pedicel usually less than ca. 5 mm. Flowers 4-merous, ca. 5 mm in diam.; sepals semirotund; petals nearly orbicular, greenish or whitish. Capsule brown to red-brown, 5-6 mm in diam. Aril red. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Sep-Dec.(Flora of China)

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