This shrub has a rounded spreading dense habit with corky wings on either side of the young 4-angled shoots. It has dark green elliptical leaves that turn dark-red during autumn and the small star-shaped greenish flowers appear in a cluster in late spring.

Hardiness zones 5 to 9

Euonymus alatus is naturally found from Japan to Korea and China growing in moist well-drained fertile soils. It prefers a sunny to semi shaded protected position and is frost and drought tolerant.

The Winged Spindle is grown for its foliage and is planted in shrub borders as a low screening plant and as a specimen in small gardens. It is suitable of inland or coastal gardens establishing in 3 to 5 years and can be grown as an informal hedge or in large tubs or planter boxes. It can tolerate drier soils once established and is suitable for coastal or cool mountain regions. ID 1580

Euonymus (yoo-ON-ee-mus) alatus (ah-LAH-tus)

Celastraceae (KEL-ah-STRAY-see-ee)