Euonymus laxiflorusChamp. ex Benth.

WFO wfo-0000681880 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Euonymus laxiflorus, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. a Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / 2021-04-12 / obs. 120978782
Euonymus laxiflorus, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110881275
Euonymus laxiflorus, photographed by 黃美滿
fig. c 黃美滿, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49989505
Euonymus laxiflorus, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32045985
Euonymus laxiflorus, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63018499
Euonymus laxiflorus, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32413711
Euonymus laxiflorus, photographed by lansan
fig. g lansan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50913509
Euonymus laxiflorus, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. h Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64693124

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Euonymus laxiflorus is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanTibetBangladeshCambodiaIndiaLaosMyanmarVietnam
Native distribution of Euonymus laxiflorus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 276 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 5.6 °C 10.1 °C 12.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.2 °C 27.6 °C 30.0 °C
Annual rainfall 2,071 mm 3,186 mm 4,671 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 86 mm 212 mm 756 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 276 research-grade observations of Euonymus laxiflorus that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Euonymus blinii H.Lév.
  • Euonymus crosnieri H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Euonymus cuspidatus Loes.
  • Euonymus forbesianus Loes.
  • Euonymus incertus Pit.
  • Euonymus kwangtungensis C.Y.Cheng
  • Euonymus laxicymosus C.Y.Cheng ex J.S.Ma
  • Euonymus longifolius Champ. ex Benth.
  • Euonymus paniculatus Wight ex G.Lawson
  • Euonymus pellucidifolius Hayata
  • Euonymus rostratus W.W.Sm.
  • Euonymus rubescens Pit.
  • Euonymus vaniotii H.Lév.
  • Masakia pellucidifolia (Hayata) Nakai

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.