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Celastrus scandens
Celastrus scandens
- Botanic Family
- Celastraceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
- Propagation
- C.K.R.S.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental with cultivars
- Offspring
- Celastrus scandens 'Indian Brave', Celastrus scandens 'Indian Maiden'
Common Names
- American Bittersweet
- Climbing Bittersweet
- False Bittersweet
- Shrubby Bittersweet
- Waxwork
- Staff Vine
- Staff Tree
- Bourreau des Arbres
Geographical Habitats
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan - Canada
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Colombia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Vermont
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming - USA
Natural Habitats
- Shrubland
- hedgerows
- woodland
- streamside
- thickets.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Large woody vine or woody glabrous deciduous twining climber eventually strangling host tree. Coriaceous serrated leaves to 100mm long, glabrous or nearly so. Drooping axillary or terminal panicles or racemes to 80mm long of small greenish or white flowers, pale yellow dioecious flowers, 4 sepals, greenish corolla 8mm across with 5 petals. 8mm orange-yellow wrinkled 3-valved fruit to 10mm diameter with red seeds, scrambler
Fruits poisonous
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Rehder 1934
- Bean 1950
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Krussmann 1976
- Huxley 1992
- RHS A-Z
- GWC 1997
- NYBG
- Bodkin
- APDC
- FL
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus
- USDA
- FOSEUS
- FRM
- Gleason & Moldenke