Evonymus

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Evonymus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Evonymus (ancient Greek name). Often spelled Euonymus. Celastraceae. Spindle-tree. Woody plants, erect or climbing, grown chiefly for their handsome foliage and the attractive fruits. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees with usually more or less 4-angled branches, mostly erect, rarely creeping or climbing by rootlets: winter-buds usually conspicuous with imbricate scales: Lvs. opposite, petioled, usually serrate, and mostly glabrous: fls. small, in axillary cymes. 4-5-merous, generally perfect; style and stamens short, the latter inserted on a disk: fr. a 3-5-lobed, somewhat fleshy caps., each dehiscent valve containing 1 or 2 seeds inclosed in a generally orange-colored aril; the seed itself is white, red or black.—About 120 species in the northern hemisphere, most of them in Cent, and E. Asia, extending to S. Asia and Austral. The spindle-trees are of upright or sometimes procumbent or creeping habit, with rather inconspicuous greenish, whitish or purplish flowers in axillary cymes; very attractive in fall, with their handsome scarlet, pink or whitish, capsular fruits, showing the bright orange seeds when opening, and with the splendid fall coloring that most of the species assume, especially E. alata, E. Maackii, E. sanguinea, E. verrucosa, E. europaea and E. atropurpurea. The wood is tough, close-grained and light-colored, often almost white, and used, especially in Europe, for the manufacture of small articles. The bark of E. atropurpurea has medical properties.—Most of the cultivated deciduous species, except those from Himalayas, are hardy North, while of the evergreen ones only E. radicans is fairly hardy, and, on account of its greater hardiness, is often used North as a substitute of the ivy for covering walls, rocks and trunks of trees, climbing if planted in good soil, to a height of 15 and sometimes 20 feet. E. europaea, and South, the evergreen E. japonica are sometimes used for hedges. The spindle-trees are not particular as to the soil and are well adapted for shrubberies. Propagation is by seeds which are usually stratified and sown in spring, or by cuttings of ripened wood in fall. The evergreen species grow readily from cuttings of half- ripened wood under glass in fall or during the winter in the greenhouse. Varieties are sometimes grafted or budded on stock of their typical species. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Read about Evonymus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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