Spindle
Euonymus europaeus L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.9 m
- wide
- 4.0 m
Celastraceae
Also called Spindletree, Common spindle tree, European spindle tree, European spindle-tree, European spindletree
Formerly Euonymus bulgaricus, Euonymus czernjaevii, Euonymus fibrillifer, Euonymus flavescens, and 10 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
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to CaucasusKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.7 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 m to 4.9 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- German
- Pfaffenhütchen, Europäisches Pfaffenhütchen
- Asturian
- escuernacabres, escuernacabra
- Finnish
- euroopansorvarinpensas
- French
- fusain deurope
- Dutch
- wilde kardinaalsmuts, Wilde kardinaalsmuts
- Chinese
- 欧洲卫矛
- Slovenian
- navadna trdoleska
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, 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, CC0
- 3D model: Euonymus europaeus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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