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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on December 3 2009)

Hamilton's spindletree
Euonymus sieboldianus Blume [Celastraceae]

Mayumi (マユミ, 真弓)

Lifeform: deciduous shrub
Arillus: red
Distribution: China - south Korea - Japan - Sakhalin
Habitat: lowlands - mountains
Remarks: hardwood, Japanese bow is made of Hamilton's spindletree

Synonyms

E. hamiltonianus Wall. subsp. sieboldianus H. Hara
E. sieboldianus Blume var. megaphyllus H. Hara
E. sieboldianus Blume var. yedoensis (Koehne) H. Hara


Euonymus sieboldianus in Japan

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[Left] a tree. [Center] branches. [Right] close-up of flowers. At Rakuju-en Garden, Mishima, on November 18 2009.


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