View source for Evonymus europaea

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Evonymus europaea, Linn. (E. vulgaris, Mill.). Fig. 1465. Erect shrub or sometimes small tree, to 20 ft.: Lvs. ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, crenately serrate, 1½-2½ in. long: fls. yellowish, in few-fld. cymes: caps. 4-lobed, usually pink. May. Eu. to E. Asia. B.B. (ed. 2) 2:492. H. W. 3, p. 53.—Varying with narrower and broader Lvs. There are also several varieties with variegated Lvs. and some with frs. of different colors, as var. atrorubens, Rehd. (E. vulgaris var. atrorubens, Schneid. E. europaea fr. atropurpureo, Hort.), with deep purple frs.; var. leucocarpa, DC. (E. europaea fr. albo, Hort.), with whitish frs., and var. atropurpurea, Arb. Kew, with rather narrow purplish Lvs. Var. nana, Lodd., is a dwarf, dense, and strictly upright form with elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate Lvs. 1-1½ in., or on vigorous shoots, to 2½ in. long: it hardly ever flowers and is tenderer than the type.
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