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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
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