Euonymus carnosus

Fleshy-flowered spindle is in the bittersweet or Celastraceae family and is deciduous shrub native to forests and woodlands in the Sino-Himalayan region from southwest China to the Himalayas and to parts of Japan. It can grow up to 5 m tall, and occasionally into a small tree.

• Leaves are opposite, dark green, ovate-elliptic, 8–17 cm long, pointed, with finely serrated margins, turning from deep red to burgundy purple in the fall.
• Flowers are creamy white, in showy dense corymbs of 5-8 flowers which dangle from long pedicels over spring and into summer.
• Fruit is fiery coral-red with orange arils which develop in late summer to autumn, with 4-lobed capsule containing a red aril in each lobe.