Spindleberry

Photo taken November 21st 2012.

I went for a walk this afternoon planning to find something suitable for ABC Wednesday, which this week is for the Letter S. I got no further than halfway down our own garden when I came across the perfect choice, the Spindleberry looking glorious against the sunny blue skies we enjoyed here today.

The definition of Spindleberry I have shared here is courtesy of Wikipedia

Euonymus europaeus (spindle, European spindle, 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).

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