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Euonymus occidentalis

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Euonymus occidentalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Celastrales
Family: Celastraceae
Genus: Euonymus
Species:
E. occidentalis
Binomial name
Euonymus occidentalis
Natural range

Euonymus occidentalis is a species of spindle tree known by the common names western burning bush and western wahoo.

Distribution

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It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, where it is the only member of its genus growing wild.

Description

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This is a shrub or small tree reaching maximum heights of anywhere from two to six meters. The thin, green, oval-shaped leaves are three to fourteen centimeters long and sometimes rolled under along the edges. The inflorescence holds up to five small flowers at the end of a long peduncle. Each flower has five rounded pink to brown and white mottled petals around a central nectar disc with 5 nubs. The fruit is a rounded capsule with three bulging lobes. It opens to reveal one seed in each of the three lobes. The seed in concealed in a red aril.

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