Fortune's Spindle
Euonymus fortunei (Turcz.) Hand.-Mazz.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 7.0 m
- wide
- 1.8 m
Celastraceae
Also called Winter creeper, Wintercreeper
Formerly Cassine fortunei, Elaeodendron fortunei
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
- Scrambling subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Himalaya to Temp. E. Asia and W. & C. MalesiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 4.3 m to 9.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, 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: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Simplified Chinese
- 胶州卫矛, 常春卫矛, 扶芳藤
- Chinese
- 常春卫矛, 扶芳藤, 扶芳藤（爬行卫矛）
- Japanese
- ツルマサキ
- Korean
- 좀사철나무
- Swedish
- Klätterbenved
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, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Euonymus fortunei (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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