Euonymus tingens Wall.

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Euonymus

Characteristics

Evergreen shrubs to small trees, 2-8 m tall; branches gray-black to gray-brown, terete, sturdy, twigs greenish, with striae. Petiole 3-5(-8) mm; leaf blade thickly leathery, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 4-6 × 2-2.5 cm, base cuneate or suborbicular, margin crenulate, apex obtuse or acute; lateral veins 8-12 pairs, curving forward and disappearing before reaching margin. Peduncle many, 1.5-3.5 cm, 1-3 × dichotomously branched, several flowered; pedicel 5-20 mm. Flowers 5-merous, ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; sepals semiorbicular; petals creamy white with purplish veining around edges, orbicular to obovate. Capsule obovoid-globose, 5-angled, pinkish or reddish when fresh, brown or yellow-brown to red-brown when dry, 1.2-1.3 × 1.2-1.4(-1.5) cm. Seeds ellipsoid, dark brown, partially covered by orange aril. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Jul-Nov.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 4.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Forests and woodlands; at elevatuons from 1,300-3,700 metres.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 1-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

Usage

Uses dye material medicinal wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use Constipation (bark), Dyspepsia (bark), Eye diseases (bark), Constipation (unspecified), Dyspepsia (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified), Eye (unspecified), Biliary tract diseases (unspecified), Diuretics (unspecified), Gastrointestinal diseases (unspecified), Jaundice (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 220 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 18
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Euonymus tingens world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:161155-1
WFO ID wfo-0000682117
COL ID 3CH6P
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Euonymus tingens