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{{Taxobox
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| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Celastrus''
| name = Staff vine
| common_names = Staff vine, staff trees, bittersweet
| growth_habit = ? <!--- tree, shrub, herbaceous, vine, etc -->
| high = ? <!--- 1m (3 ft) -->
| wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->
| origin = ? <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc -->
| poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous -->
| lifespan = <!--- perennial, annual, etc -->
| exposure = ? <!--- full sun, part-sun, semi-shade, shade, indoors, bright filtered (you may list more than 1) -->
| water = ? <!--- frequent, regular, moderate, drought tolerant, let dry then soak -->
| features = <!--- flowers, fragrance, fruit, naturalizes, invasive -->
| hardiness = <!--- frost sensitive, hardy, 5°C (40°F), etc -->
| bloom = <!--- seasons which the plant blooms, if it is grown for its flowers -->
| usda_zones = ? <!--- eg. 8-11 -->
| sunset_zones = <!--- eg. 8, 9, 12-24, not available -->
| color = IndianRed
| image = Celastrus scandens.jpg
| image = Celastrus scandens.jpg
| image_width = 270px
| image_width = 180px <!--- leave as 240px if horizontal orientation photo, or change to 180px if vertical -->
| image_caption = ''Celastrus scandens''
| image_caption = Celastrus scandens
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| regnum = Plantae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| divisio = Magnoliophyta
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| classis = Magnoliopsida
| ordo = [[Celastrales]]
| ordo = Celastrales
| familia = [[Celastraceae]]
| familia = Celastraceae
| genus = ''Celastrus''
| genus = Celastrus
| subdivision_ranks = Species
}}
{{Inc|
About 30, including:<br/>
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, 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/>
''Celastrus orbiculatus'' - [[Oriental Staff Vine]]<br/>
''Celastrus orbiculatus'' - [[Oriental Staff Vine]]<br/>
''Celastrus scandens'' - [[American Staff Vine]]<br/>
''Celastrus scandens'' - [[American Staff Vine]]<br/>
==Gallery==
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Image:Celastrus orbiculatus.jpg|''Celastrus orbiculatus''
Image:Upload.png| photo 2
Image:Upload.png| photo 3
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[[Image:Celastrus orbiculatus.jpg|left|thumb|''Celastrus orbiculatus'']]
==References==
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.
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
==External links==
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