Native to the southeastern United States
glossy and green through a mild winter
People have cultivated the species in China for at least three thousand years
Heaths and heathers run to dozens of species and hundreds of named forms
among the rarest habitats in North America
Euonymus sp. 25/1 Restock Native to the southeastern UnitedEvery nursery keeps a few mysteries, and this trailing evergreen euonymus is one of ours: a plant still awaiting a firm name, possibly Euonymus aculeatus, collected by Frank Bell high on Mount Emei (Emeishan) in Sichuan, China. Low and spreading, the stems carry long pointed, finely toothed leaves about two inches long, glossy and evergreen, on a habit that hugs the ground and wanders steadily outward. Like the rest of the genus, this euonymus belongs