Burning Bush
பர்னிங் புஷ்
Euonymus alatus (Thunb.) Siebold
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.3 m
- wide
- 5.3 m
Celastraceae
Also called Burningbush, Winged Euonymus, Winged Spindle
Formerly Celastrus alatus, Celastrus striatus, Euonymus arakianus, Euonymus ellipticus, and 9 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Siberia to Japan and ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 4.6 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, red, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Chinese
- 毛脉卫矛, 东北卫矛, 卫矛
- Finnish
- Pallesorvarinpensas
- Japanese
- ニシキギ
- Slovenian
- krilata trdoleska
- Simplified Chinese
- 卫矛, 鬼箭羽
- Tamil
- பர்னிங் புஷ், எரிபுதர்
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Euonymus alatus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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