winged euonymus

Euonymus alatus

Highly invasive. The seeds are spread broadly by birds. Consider replacing this plant in your yard with native highbush blueberry, which has similarly attractive red leaves in fall. 7

Euonymus alatus, known variously as winged spindle, winged euonymus or burning bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to central and northern China, Japan, and Korea.

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  1. (c) Claire O'Neill, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Claire O'Neill
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  7. Adapted by Laura J. Costello from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euonymus_alatus

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