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Celastrus orbiculatus
Celastrus orbiculatus
- Botanic Family
- Celastraceae
- Author
- Thunberg ex A. Murray
- Propagation
- C.K.R.S.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental, hedges with cultivar
- Offspring
- Celastrus orbiculatus 'Diana'
Common Names
- Oriental Bittersweet
- Staff Vine
- Climbing Spindleberry
- Nan she teng (Pinyin)
- False Bittersweet
- Tsuru-ume-modoki (Japan)
- Teri-hatsuru-ume-modoki (Japan)
- Inu-tsuru-ume-modoki (Japan)
- Ō-tsuru-ume-modoki (Japan)
- Shitaki-tsuru-ume-modoki (Japan)
Geographical Habitats
- Anhui
- Beijing Shi
- Gansu
- Jiangsu
- Hebei
- Heilongjiang
- Henan
- Jiangxi
- Jilin
- Liaoning
- Nei Mongol
- Shaanxi
- Shandong
- Shanxi
- Sichuan
- Zhejiang
- Hubei
- Hunan - China
- Hokkaido
- Honshu
- Kyushu
- Ryukyu Islands
- Shikoku - Japan
- Korea
- Amur
- Primorye
- Sakhalin Oblast - Russia
Natural Habitats
- Montane and lowland thickets
- forest edge
- forest
- montane forest & valleys
- grassland
- coastal
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Dioecious woody deciduous glabrous twining or erect shrub to 40m+. Serrated leaves to 130mm x 90mm. Axillary glabrous sometimes terminal 30mm cymes of up to 7 flowers, male flowers petals 4mm x 2.5mm, female flowers shorter, pale green flowers. Fruit greenish-yellow 3-valved capsule to 13mm wide & revealing golden inner surface & scarlet seeds.
Can become a weed
Medicinal uses for root & stem. Bark a source of fine fibre, seed a source of oil
Further References
- Rehder 1934
- Bean 1950
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Krussmann 1976
- van der Spuy 1976
- Huxley 1992
- FONZ
- RHS A-Z
- GWC 1997
- FOC
- Chujian 2001
- Bodkin
- APDC
- WFO
- Botanicus
- JAA
- FOJ