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Euonymus cornutus Hemsl.

Celastraceae · China South-Central, China North-Central

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Summary

Euonymus cornutus is a species of flowering plant in the genus Euonymus, native to Tibet, central China and Myanmar. Its putative variety Euonymus cornutus var. quinquecornutus, called the five‑horned spindle, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Euonymus cornutus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Euonymus

Euonymus is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family Celastraceae. Common names vary widely among different species and between different English-speaking countries, but include spindle, burning-bush, strawberry-bush, wahoo, wintercreeper, or simply euonymus. It has about 140 species of deciduous and evergreen shrubs, small trees and lianas. More on Wikipedia ›

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Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 164 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 164 of the 164 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker30.6, 109.72 · in the densest population, 134 records (82% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 164 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 83 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 16 km away. 14 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 164 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 164 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Euonymus 40 in the reference

Euonymus acanthocarpus Celastraceae Euonymus alatus Euonymus alatus Winged euonymus Photo: CC BY, Emily SummerbellEuonymus americanus Euonymus americanus Hearts-bustin'-with-love Photo: CC BY, Alex AbairEuonymus atropurpureus Euonymus atropurpureus Eastern burning-bush Photo: CC BY, Shelby Lyn SandersEuonymus carnosus Euonymus carnosus Fleshy-flowered spindle tree Photo: CC BY, 謝麗霦Euonymus centidens Euonymus centidens Celastraceae Photo: CC BY, 賴碧珠Euonymus cochinchinensis Euonymus cochinchinensis Celastraceae Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuEuonymus echinatus Euonymus echinatus Celastraceae Photo: CC BY, 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng ZengEuonymus europaeus Euonymus europaeus European spindle-tree Photo: CC BY, Patrick HackerEuonymus fimbriatus Euonymus fimbriatus Celastraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh Valke from Thane, IndiaEuonymus fortunei Euonymus fortunei Winter creeper Photo: CC BY-SA, Douglas Goldman Euonymus frigidus Celastraceae all 41 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Euonymus cornutoides; Euonymus cornutus subsp. quinquecornutus; Euonymus cornutus var. quinquecornutus; Euonymus cornutus var. typicus; Euonymus frigidus var. cornutoides and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Celastraceae
Described by
Hemsl.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central
Wild records
164 in range · 83 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22164 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 21 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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