Euonymus balansae Sprague

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Euonymus

Characteristics

Evergreen shrubs, scandent, ca. 3 m tall; branches and twigs 4-angled, brown or gray-brown when dry. Petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade papery, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 10-15 × 4-8 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin crenulate, apex acute or acuminate; lateral veins 6-9 pairs, netting before reaching margin, impressed adaxially and prominent abaxially. Peduncle 4-6 cm, 2 or 3 × dichotomously branched, several flowered; pedicel glabrous, 4-5 mm. Flowers 4-merous, 9-10 mm in diam.; sepals suborbicular; petals yellow-green, ovate, base cuneate. Ovary densely prickly; stigma absent. Capsule red when fresh, black when dry, nearly globose, 1-1.3 cm in diam., 4-lobed, densely prickly, prickles ca. 3 mm. Aril bright red. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Jul-Nov.
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 3.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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Germination duration (days) 220 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 18
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Distribution

Euonymus balansae world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:160792-1
WFO ID wfo-0000681621
COL ID 3CGT8
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Synonyms

Euonymus balansae Euonymus hystrix Euonymus rhodacanthus Euonymus theifolius var. mengtzeanus