Euonymus (Celastraceae) CWJ12446

spraguei

This is a lax evergreen shrub in juvenility, maturing to larger elliptic leaves on slender green stems to 2m tall bearing panicles of curious rounded fruiting capsules covered in curved spines. Found growing at the base of shady cliffs in 2007, on a long abandoned logging trail the Japanese carved into the forests in the high mountains of north-eastern Taiwan. Easily grown in a drained fertile soil, in sun or part shade with shelter from the coldest winds.