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Celastrus flagellaris

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

Ruprecht

Propagation

C.K.R.S.

Common Names

• Ci bao nan she teng (Pinyin)
• Iwa-umezuri (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Beijing Shi
• Hebei
• Heilongjiang
• Jilin
• Liaoning
• Shandong - China
• Honshu
• Kyushu - Japan
• S. Korea
• Primorye - Russia

Natural Habitats

• Riverside forest
• thickets
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Apr-May (China)
• Jun (Japan)
• May (Korea)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Sep (China)

Deciduous spiny sarmentose twining shrub, branches with exfoliating bark. Leaves setaceous-denticulate & glabrous to 50mm x 40mm, sparsely scabrous above. Axillary cymes or fascicles of male flowers with 3.5mm petals, female to 1mm, green or yellow flowers. 8mm wide yellow-green capsule with orange-red aril.

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• WFO
• Fedde
• JAA
• FOJ