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good-sized tree; bark=very thick ║ vertical ribs, looks covered with warts or puffy paint; often has dark 🍒︎ cherry-like fruit		lookalike hackberry Celtis occidentalis.
good-sized tree; some twigs have 1–4 ✦ corky wings; buds=not centered over ⬮ leaf scar		lookalike rock or cork elm Ulmus thomasii.
shrub to low-tree; ◼︎ square twigs, ✎ pencil-thickness		this plant, please continue below …

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Also called winged euonymus, winged spindle tree, and Oriental spindle-tree. Its species name alatus means 🐦︎✈︎ "winged". Its common name "burning bush" comes from its bright red autumn leaves, which stay on the bush long after most other deciduous plants have 🍃︎ dropped their leaves.

Part of bittersweet or staff vine family Celastraceae.

Native to 🇨🇳 China, 🇰🇵 🇰🇷 Korea, and 🇯🇵 Japan. 🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48). Invasive > 🌐︎ global Invasive > 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Canada+USA Invasive > report it! Invasive > 🇺🇸 USA Invasive > Michigan Native alternatives (Great Lakes green entries). (page 3)

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database) On No-Planting List by Seneca Nation of Indians SNI. (pages 59 and 61)

🇺🇸 In the USA, a speaker recently suggested ^{[citation needed]} those seeking a shrub with bright red fall color replace this plant with native alternatives American hazelnut Corylus americana.

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🏠︎ 🌳︎🍁︎ 📅︎ broadleaves, a month or more after most other deciduous plants 🍃︎ dropped their leaves, dormant season

hackberry Celtis occidentalis rock or cork elm Ulmus thomasii