#euonymus fortunei

[unacunatura]

eyes of Lina

[crudlynaturephotos]

[headspace-hotel]

I think what fascinates me the most about invasive plants is how rare they are. Like I rage against invasive species and I'm 100% pro native plants but the vast majority of non-native plants in an environment are just hanging out.

Which is what makes it so striking that there are those few species that choose violence. Put Lonicera maacki, Pyrus calleryana and Euonymus fortunei together in an empty plot where I live and they can sterilize it of everything except themselves.

Even weirder, if you were even a hundred miles north of me, that list would be totally different. Plenty of plants that are nightmare invasives in other areas are present here but don't really do anything. I know where you can find autumn olive and Japanese knotweed close by but they're just...there.

It's like, if you seeded 500 non-native species over a large area, there would be 50 or so that survived long term and were just chilling, and about 5 that decided to kill everything in their path, and you would have no way to guess which ones.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 27 November 2023

This Euonymus fortunei 'Silver Queen' (evergreen bittersweet, spindle) has been allowed to cover this garden wall. The variegated leaves are semi-evergreen and tolerant of shade, salt-laden air and drought once established.

Jill Raggett

[smilingwind]

Euonymus fortunei emerald gold

[horsfields]

Euonymus Green Spire

Makes a lovely evergreen hedge.

Plant with bonemeal for root development & feed with growmore fertiliser, which has a high nitrogen content.

"Euonymus 'Green Spire'" is a popular variety of Euonymus fortunei, known for its upright, columnar growth habit, making it an excellent choice for hedging or as a structural plant in garden designs.

It is characterized by its small, glossy, green leaves and its ability to maintain a dense, bushy shape with minimal pruning.

Key points about its care and characteristics:

Light: Thrives in both full sun and partial shade, though it may exhibit the best leaf color and density in well-lit conditions.

Soil: Prefers well-drained soil but is quite adaptable to different soil types, including clay, sand, and loam.

Watering: Needs regular watering, especially in dry periods, but is relatively drought-tolerant once established.

Pruning: Can be pruned to shape in late winter or early spring, though it naturally grows in a compact, upright form.

"Euonymus 'Green Spire'" is appreciated for its versatility and low maintenance requirements, making it a popular choice for gardeners looking to add evergreen structure to their landscapes.

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[whatsbloomingnow]

Winter Creeper (Euonymus fortunei Turcz. Hand.-Maz.)

Celastraceae (Bittersweet Family) Synonym(s): Wintercreeper, Climbing Euonymus, Fortune’s Spindle Base Flower Color: Green, WhiteReproductive Phenology: May, JunBloom Notes: This plant can either be a liana (i.e., a woody plant with a vine-like growth form) or a shrub (i.e., a woody plant with several stems growing from the base). This is the shrub version. For more information about this…

[growing-my-green-thumb]

Plant tour!!! (part 1)

I have them spread between two very different balconies. The one on the back has mostly shade and less wind, no rain at all. The one on the front gets aaaall the direct sunlight from sunrise to early afternoon and it's very explode to rain and wind, except from the corner against the wall that is more covered.

Note: I took all these pictures at the same time, 9:30 pm, after almost two hours of working on every plant and having watered every single one (that needed it)

Here we go!!!

Starting strong with this beautiful Delosperma Cooperi, which actually has tons of bright pink flowers that are currently sleeping

Bonus: the tiny pot has it's baby, which is not doing so so great. I might have to give up on him soon

Then, this Alstroemeria which has been flowering decently like a good old lady. I might have to cut it a more proper shape soon

Then I have this monstrosity, but I'm not giving up on it because it's actually two Dahlia plants who are not completely dead yet. Waiting for a miracle here

Up next we have a very dramatic huge pot of Solanum. Today was a really hot day so The Queen pretended that I haven't been watering it for two weeks

Next we got the big two, Basil and Parsley. Doing just fine, considering that Basil here has flowered a ton

Now we have the two best looking plants actually, the two cousins of Euonymus (respectively japonicus and fortunei)

It looks like they are faded but actually I just turned them around, they've been facing the wall for too long

Up next, a very sad looking plant of Hydrangea that has been suffering a lot every since after it flowered earlier this summer.

Next is a not so happyYucca that needs a crutch to stand up

Total plant count so far 12 (I count each individual plant except for the basil and the big solana, both which I counted as one plant)

[tonytomeo]

Euonymus fortunei

Euonymus fortunei can be shrubby or vining. Like ivy, Euonymus fortunei creeps along the ground while juvenile, then climbs as a clinging vine where it finds support, and finally produces shrubby adult growth that can bloom and produce seed when it reaches the top of the support. Most cultivars (cultivated varieties) are juvenile plants that make good small scale ground cover that will…

[el-hartiggi]

Eunymus fortunei (Wintercreeper, Fortune's spindle, Climbing spindle-tree, Climbing euonymus)

[crudlynaturephotos]

[alligatorjesie]

You know it's just the weirdest thing how I'm able to enjoy my fandoms and also still do a lot of community good.

I do free invasive plant removal and free native horticulture consulting. Basically I help neighbors ID plants in their yards and let them know if they're native or invasive and the best removal method to apply.

Here's an example: This is a nearly 90 year old tree in the neighborhood that was being killed by a highly invasive plant called 'Winter Creeper'(Euonymus fortunei);

I'd been walking about the area and noticing it for a little over a year. One day I caught the neighbor in the yard and let them know what the plant was and how it was killing their tree, then offered to kill it free of charge.

Meow here is that tree again after we cut the vine back;

And we can tell it's Actually Dead because THIS is what wintercreeper usually looks like in the winter:

That tree may actually live another 90 years now. I've done this for free to a lot of trees around here because this nasty shit is growing on everything.

I also leave a 'free' pallet in front of my house where I put excess food/herbs/plants from my personal garden.

And when I'm not doing all that hit which if I'm being very honest here takes up a shit load of my time outside of fandom activities I also offer

completely free of charge

my personal services to counterprotest our towns very own low rent Westboro Baptist Church whom frequently protest our local pride and drag show events;

This was more fun than selling dildos at a furry con. Which was up until this point the most fun I've ever had yelling to get people's attention.

1,000/10 highly recommend

extraordinarily cathartic.

And when I'm not doing that honestly fairly noble community good I'm drawing and reading reylo smut.

I can do both things and feel fulfilled in both communities.

These are not mutually exclusive activities.

Meow you're free to correct me if I'm readin' you wrong here and I will apologize to you personally but you're smoking actual crack cocaine if you think ANY culture is free from political influences.

Nothing is free from political influences.

In fact it's common to have your political views influence the media you choose to consume.

That's actually Very Normal.

We're not here to say shipping reylo will fix prison reform,

that's fucking stupid,

mostly because we should all know by now that prisons in many countries were never designed to reform a goddamn soul.

America actually has keeping slaves as a form of criminal punishment written into their constitution.

... so... unless that part get removed sometime soon prison reform is a fucking pipe dream.

But we can all agree learning to understand that people can sometimes do bad things but maybe with a little sumpin' call Basic Human Compassion they can grow to become better people overall and how that isn't really a bad moral journey to set on.

Which is The Moral Lesson fandoms like reylo offer.

Which, unsurprisingly, influence and reflect our real world values.

It's fun to explore bad guys with good causes.

Sometimes it's fun to imagine a 3rd option where the characters you love pull off the unthinkable and actually work together to fix the problems in their universe since we're all woefully unable to resolve them in our own world.

We live in a capitalistic hellscape where our basic rights as women are being striped away form us right before our eyes and sometimes it's fun to image the world being better.

Big changes can start with a little empathy.

Also loving the irony of OP saying how fandom discourse isn't driven by politics in a fantasy space epic Heavily Influenced by politics.

OP... Have you ever watched a Star Wars?

I'm going to be a little bit of a cunt here for a moment.

So you'll have to either forgive me or hate me forever for bringing it up but do understand I just wanted to know purely for me. I was really curious about how much time you spend on your tumblr vs myself.

If HBomberGuy has taught me anything it's laying the facts out very straight for everyone to see is a fun activity for all.

Learning things is fun!

For the month of december this year I had a grand total of 231 posts/reblogs and part of that number is a whole ass Star Wars TROS fixit comic I meticulously tagged and reblogged each page since the creator at that point hadn't had Anyone reblog some of their pages and I felt like it was a good use of my time in the fandom community to give them the reblogs they deserve.

You on the other hand had over 656 posts/reblogs.

And a lot of it's just shitposting. You even mention how you love to shippost in quite a few of the posts.

Which is fine man. whatever. you tumblr how you wanna.

but consider some people are active in fandoms, can understand how politics can drive fandom discourse even if indirectly, and have a life outside of tumblr before calling a whole ass fandom out for being terminally online.

Now is a good time to reflect inward.

if you think ship war discourse is about real life political viewpoints turn off your phone and go volunteer at a soup kitchen.

[carnegiemuseumnaturalhistory]

Collected on this Day in 2012: Wintercreeper

This specimen of wintercreeper (Euonymus fortunei) was collected on January 31, 2012 along the Monongahela River in Fayette County, PA by Allison Cusick.  Allison Cusick is a current Research Associate in the Section of Botany at the museum.  He can be frequently found in the Carnegie Museum herbarium.  He has a unique wealth of knowledge on plants, herbaria, botanical history, and more.  He authored three books and more than 50 scientific papers on the flora of eastern North America. Before retiring, he was the Chief Botanist for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.  He continues to collect today, and many thousands of his specimens can found at herbaria across the country.  

Note the label on this specimen reads “Cusick, A.W.   37174”  The number following a collectors name is known as the…you guessed it… collector number (surprise!).  The collector number is the number assigned to a specimen by the collector.  It is common for several specimens to have the same collector number, if they are from the same individual or species in the same location on the same day (“duplicate specimens”).  Unfortunately, there are no universal rules on how collector numbers are used or assigned.  Collector numbers primary use is so the collector and/or others using the specimen can go back to the collector’s field notebook for additional information on the specimen.  Collector numbers are different from specimen numbers (which are assigned by the herbarium, such that every specimen has a unique ID for reference).  Most collectors number their specimens chronologically in order they were collected (but not always), but some collector numbers consist of dashes and/or letters, too.  

Anyway, what I’m getting at is that this specimen (Cusick 37174) suggests Alison has collected AT LEAST over 37,000 specimens.  The number is actually higher than that, with duplicates and an additional 8 years of collecting.  Not that numbers are everything, but Allison’s contribution to the herbarium record is clearly impressive and impactful.

Ok, now back to the plant!  Winter creeper (Euonymus fortunei), native to Asia, is commonly planted in Pennsylvania and many other places, and unfortunately has also spread to become invasive.  It is still commonly planted.  It is a woody vine that climbs trees, but also is a thick ground cover.  It has leaves that persist through the winter, with attractive fruits.  Despite those advantages, it can impact native species and habitats as an invasive species, and therefore, should not be planted.

Find this specimen and more here: http://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=12134036&clid=0

Check back for more! Botanists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History share digital specimens from the herbarium on dates they were collected. They are in the midst of a three-year project to digitize nearly 190,000 plant specimens collected in the region, making images and other data publicly available online. This effort is part of the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis Project (mamdigitization.org), a network of thirteen herbaria spanning the densely populated urban corridor from Washington, D.C. to New York City to achieve a greater understanding of our urban areas, including the unique industrial and environmental history of the greater Pittsburgh region. This project is made possible by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 1801022.

Mason Heberling is Assistant Curator of Botany at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Museum employees are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences and knowledge gained from working at the museum.

[sugarandmoss]

I forged some Wintercreeper (euonymus funtunei) seeds today, and I already know what I’m going to use it for but for the life of me I can’t find any information anywhere about it being used in witchcraft. So do you guys know any correspondences or have ever used it before?

Pretty much all I have been able to gather is that it’s an invasive species that’s originally from China, Japan and Korea, and they’re poisonous. So these things do give me a lot of ideas but again I just want to see if other people have used them before

~CelticMagic ✨🍀

[alexsmithson]

Nature's Summer Glow!

Mother Nature embraces her Summer Glow after a few weeks of moderately warm weather.

Mother Nature embraces her Summer Glow after a few weeks of moderately warm weather.

It’s not surprising considering the weekend was baking hot!

The past few weeks have seen the temperature dropping but not to the point where it gets cold, so it’s not a surprise that the heatwave has come back for another go.

Has Mother Nature been showing off her Summer Glow where you are?

I would…

[samirafee]

#EUONYMUS FORTUNEI *EMERALD AND GOLD* - SPINDEL TREE🍃💛🍃

@samirafee