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Celastrus gemmatus

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

Loesener

Propagation

C.K.R.S.

Common Names

• Da ya nan she teng (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Shaanxi
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Apr-Sep (China)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Oct (China)

Twining shrub with lenticellate branchlets. Glabrous leaves to 120mm x 70mm with shallowly serrate margins. Terminal & axillary cymes of greenish flowers, sepals to 1.5mm, petals to 4mm x 2mm. Yellow fruit to 13mm wide with prominent lenticels.

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FOC
• IFV