Spindle
Euonymus europaeus
Euonymus europaeus, the spindle, European spindle, or common spindle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to much of Europe, where it inhabits the edges of forest, hedges and gentle slopes, tending to thrive on nutrient-rich, chalky and salt-poor soils. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree. Other names include fusoria, fusanum, ananbeam, shemshad rasmi (Iran), while it may have given its name to the ancient Greek settlement of Euonymeia.
Where it lives
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.784
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.1055
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.367
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.103
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.792
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.100
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.69
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.68
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.74
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.75
The Dutch Herbarium or Herbal
Petrus Nylandt · 1670 · p.65
Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms
James Sowerby · 1797 · p.578
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55847.