| Fleshy-Flowered Spindle Tree |
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| File size | 85087 |
| Original date | 5/25/14 9:16 AM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 18.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/4000s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
| Focus Distance | 0.0m |
| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | FinePix HS35EXR |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Euonymus carnosus Family: Celastraceae (Spike-thorn family)
Synonyms: Euonymus tanakae, Euonymus batakensis, Euonymus platycline
Synonyms: Euonymus tanakae, Euonymus batakensis, Euonymus platycline
Fleshy-Flowered Spindle Tree is a deciduous shrubs to
small tree, up to 8 m tall, about 10 cm stem diameter, branches and
twigs gray-green to gray-brown, round, sturdy. Leaf-stalks are 5-20 mm;
leaf blade thickly papery to leathery, elliptic or oblong-elliptic to
ovate or obovate-elliptic, 6-13 x 1.5-7 cm, base wedge-shaped or
narrowed, margin crenulate, tip blunt or mucronulate; lateral veins
8-12 pairs, curving forward, redivided and webbing with veinlets before
reaching margin. Flower-cluster-stalk are 2-6 cm long, 1-3 times
dichotomously branched with several to many flowers; flower-stalk 5-10
mm. Flowers are 4-merous, 10-12 mm in diameter. Sepals are semi-round,
persistent; petals yellow or brown-green, round. Capsules are 4-lobed,
brown or yellow-brown to red-brown, 1.2-1.5 x 1-1.2 cm. Seeds are 3-6
per cell, ellipsoid, dark brown, arillate. Fleshy-Flowered Spindle Tree
is found in East Asia, China-Japan.
Flowering: May-August.
| Identification credit: Robert H. Archer | Photographed in Llyods Botanical Garden, Darjeeling. |
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