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| name = ''Celastrus''
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| name = Staff vine
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| common_names = Staff vine, staff trees, bittersweet
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| growth_habit = ?  <!--- tree, shrub, herbaceous, vine, etc -->
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| image_caption = ''Celastrus scandens''
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| image_caption = Celastrus scandens
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| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
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| regnum = Plantae
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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| divisio = Magnoliophyta
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| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
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| classis = Magnoliopsida
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| ordo = [[Celastrales]]
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| ordo = Celastrales
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| familia = [[Celastraceae]]
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| familia = Celastraceae
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| genus = ''Celastrus''
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| genus = Celastrus
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About 30, including:<br/>
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Celastrus (Kelastros, ancient Greek name). Celastraceae. Woody plants grown chiefly for their brightly colored fruit; some also for their handsome foliage.
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Shrubs, usually climbing, with alternate, petioled, usually deciduous and serrate glabrous lvs.: fls. polygamous, 5-merous, inconspicuous, greenish white, in axillary or terminal panicles or racemes; calyx 5-parted; petals small, oblong-ovate; disk entire or crenate; stamens short; ovary superior; style short with 3-lobed stigma: fr. a caps, dehiscent into 3 valves, each containing 1 or 2 seeds, inclosed in a fleshy crimson aril. —More than 30 species in S. and E. Asia, Austral, and Amer. The species with perfect fls. in axillary cymes and with evergreen lvs., being rigid and often spiny shrubs, are now included under Gymnosporia, which see.
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These shrubs are hardy and ornamental, very effective with their bright-colored fruit remaining usually throughout the winter; C. angulatus is also worth growing for its large handsome foliage. They are very valuable for covering trelliswork, trees or rocks and walls: they grow in almost any soil and situation, and as well in shaded as in sunny positions. Propagated by seeds, sown in fall or stratified, and by root-cuttings or layers; suckers are freely produced, and become sometimes a nuisance in nurseries; they also can be increased by cuttings of mature and of soft wood.
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C. flagellaris, Rupr. Allied to C. orbiculatus. Branches with persistent spiny stipules, sometimes rooting: lvs. ovate or oval, small, finely serrulate, slender-petioled: fr. axillary, small. N. China, Korea, Japan. Quite hardy, but not so handsome as C. orbiculatus.—C. nutans, Hort. Reasoner, not Roxbg.-Quisqualis indica.—C. Orixa, Sieb. & Zucc. (syn. Orixa japonica).
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==Cultivation==
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===Propagation===
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==Species==
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About 30, including{{wp}}:<br/>
 
''Celastrus angulatus'' - [[Chinese Staff Vine]]<br/>
 
''Celastrus angulatus'' - [[Chinese Staff Vine]]<br/>
 
''Celastrus australis'' - [[Australian Staff Vine]]<br/>
 
''Celastrus australis'' - [[Australian Staff Vine]]<br/>
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''Celastrus orbiculatus'' - [[Oriental Staff Vine]]<br/>
 
''Celastrus orbiculatus'' - [[Oriental Staff Vine]]<br/>
 
''Celastrus scandens'' - [[American Staff Vine]]<br/>
 
''Celastrus scandens'' - [[American Staff Vine]]<br/>
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The '''staff vines''', also known as '''staff trees''' or '''bittersweet''', genus '''''Celastrus''''', comprise about 30 species of [[shrub]]s and [[vine]]s. They have a wide distribution in eastern [[Asia]], [[Australasia]], [[Africa]] and [[the Americas]].  
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Image:Celastrus orbiculatus.jpg|''Celastrus orbiculatus''
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[[Image:Celastrus orbiculatus.jpg|left|thumb|''Celastrus orbiculatus'']]
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==References==
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The leaves are alternate and simple ovoid, typically 5-20 cm long. The flowers are small, white, pink or greenish, and borne in long panicles; the fruit is a red three-valved berry. The fruit are eaten by frugivorous [[bird]]s, which disperse the seeds in their droppings. All parts of the plants are [[poisonous]] to [[human]]s if eaten.
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
  
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In [[North America]], they are known as '''bittersweet''', presumably a result of confusion with the unrelated [[Solanum dulcamara|Bittersweet]] (''Solanum dulcamara'') by early colonists. ''C. orbiculatus'' is a serious [[invasive species|invasive]] [[weed]] in much of eastern North America.
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Latest revision as of 05:14, 17 June 2009


Celastrus scandens


Plant Characteristics
Origin: ✈ ?
Cultivation
Exposure: ☼ ?"?" is not in the list (sun, part-sun, shade, unknown) of allowed values for the "Exposure" property.
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Scientific Names

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Read about Staff vine in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Celastrus (Kelastros, ancient Greek name). Celastraceae. Woody plants grown chiefly for their brightly colored fruit; some also for their handsome foliage.

Shrubs, usually climbing, with alternate, petioled, usually deciduous and serrate glabrous lvs.: fls. polygamous, 5-merous, inconspicuous, greenish white, in axillary or terminal panicles or racemes; calyx 5-parted; petals small, oblong-ovate; disk entire or crenate; stamens short; ovary superior; style short with 3-lobed stigma: fr. a caps, dehiscent into 3 valves, each containing 1 or 2 seeds, inclosed in a fleshy crimson aril. —More than 30 species in S. and E. Asia, Austral, and Amer. The species with perfect fls. in axillary cymes and with evergreen lvs., being rigid and often spiny shrubs, are now included under Gymnosporia, which see.

These shrubs are hardy and ornamental, very effective with their bright-colored fruit remaining usually throughout the winter; C. angulatus is also worth growing for its large handsome foliage. They are very valuable for covering trelliswork, trees or rocks and walls: they grow in almost any soil and situation, and as well in shaded as in sunny positions. Propagated by seeds, sown in fall or stratified, and by root-cuttings or layers; suckers are freely produced, and become sometimes a nuisance in nurseries; they also can be increased by cuttings of mature and of soft wood.

C. flagellaris, Rupr. Allied to C. orbiculatus. Branches with persistent spiny stipules, sometimes rooting: lvs. ovate or oval, small, finely serrulate, slender-petioled: fr. axillary, small. N. China, Korea, Japan. Quite hardy, but not so handsome as C. orbiculatus.—C. nutans, Hort. Reasoner, not Roxbg.-Quisqualis indica.—C. Orixa, Sieb. & Zucc. (syn. Orixa japonica).


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Cultivation

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Propagation

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Pests and diseases

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Species

About 30, includingwp:
Celastrus angulatus - Chinese Staff Vine
Celastrus australis - Australian Staff Vine
Celastrus dispermus - Orange Boxwood
Celastrus paniculatus - Peng
Celastrus pyracanthus - South African Staff Vine
Celastrus orbiculatus - Oriental Staff Vine
Celastrus scandens - American Staff Vine

Gallery

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  • Celastrus orbiculatus

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