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Burning Bush |
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Winged Euonymus |
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Winged Spindle Tree |
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Cork Bush |
Plant Habit: | Shrub |
Life cycle: | Perennial |
Sun Requirements: | Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Water Preferences: | Mesic Dry Mesic Dry |
Minimum cold hardiness: | Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35) |
Maximum recommended zone: | Zone 8b |
Plant Height: | 15 - 20 feet |
Plant Spread: | 15 - 20 |
Leaves: | Good fall color Deciduous |
Fruit: | Edible to birds |
Fruiting Time: | Fall |
Flowers: | Inconspicuous |
Flower Color: | White |
Flower Time: | Late spring or early summer |
Uses: | Windbreak or Hedge |
Wildlife Attractant: | Birds |
Propagation: Seeds: | Stratify seeds: 3 months in moist sand at 40F Needs specific temperature: 70-85F Days to germinate: 8 weeks Depth to plant seed: Barely cover with sand. Suitable for wintersowing Start indoors Can handle transplanting Other info: Plant seedlings in 1 gallon pots after sprouting. Plant out after last frost. Space 6-10 feet apart. |
Propagation: Other methods: | Cuttings: Stem |
Pollinators: | Various insects |
Posted by robertduval14 (Mason, New Hampshire - Zone 5b) on Mar 29, 2014 3:09 PM The USDA and the U.S. Forest Service list the plant as invasive and a threat to mature forests and successional fields and woodlands because it out-competes native species. [ Reply to this comment | |
Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Oct 11, 2018 8:22 AM This Winged Euonymus Burningbush is abundantly planted all around the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and upper South of the USA, sold at most every conventional nursery, where it is referred to as the standard shrub rather than the compact variety that is even more commonly planted. It is native to northeast Asia. It is a good quality, neat , clean, large shrub that has handsome foliage and red fall color, (pink in shade). Its winged twigs are handsome that range from slightly winged to very winged, depending. It develops a very dense, powerful, fibrous root system, so that one can't plant some other kind of plants close to it after it is mature. It develops very dense foliage, so that many use it for a dense screen or sheared hedge. Unfortunately its orange seeds are eaten by some birds and deposited out in the wild where it has become an invasive Asian plant in or along woods in eastern North America. When I go out and attack invasive Eurasian plants in the wild to aid the native plants, this is one of the common ones that I take out. I consider this shrub as over-used and I wish for more variety in landscapes. [ Reply to this comment | |
Posted by jathton (Oklahoma City, OK - Zone 7a) on Oct 25, 2019 4:19 PM There are evidently lots of reasons to NOT plant Burning Bush if you live in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, NYC and other points east. But living on the Southern Great Plains often gives gardeners a perspective they would not otherwise have. Burning Bush out here on the plains: [ Reply to this comment | |
Posted by Bonehead (Planet Earth - Zone 8b) on Oct 12, 2013 11:00 AM Neat habit which doesn't require any pruning, bright green foliage in spring, white flowers, leaves turn a rich red in fall, and orange berries hold on all winter. Excellent low-maintenance four-season shrub. [ Reply to this comment | |
Posted by bxncbx (NYC - Zone 7a) on Oct 4, 2016 9:11 AM Considered invasive (or potentially invasive) in the following states: CT, GA, IL, IN, KY, MA, NC, NH, SC, TN, WV. Also the District of Columbia (DC). [ Reply to this comment | |
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