It is used as a groundcover or a vine to climb walls and trees. Cultivation Įuonymus fortunei is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant, with numerous cultivars selected for such traits as yellow, variegated and slow, dwarfed growth. Its habitats include woodlands, scrub, and forests.
It also is related to a variety of similar species, including Euonymus theifolius, or Euonymus vagans and also a number of named "species" which are found only in cultivation and better treated as cultivars. It resembles Euonymus japonicus, which is also widely cultivated but is a shrub, without climbing roots. It has an extensive native range, including many parts of China (from sea level to 3400 m elevation), India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Northern Japan ( Hokkaidō), doubtfully distinct from var. The fruit is a smooth, dehiscent capsule with reddish arils. The flowers are inconspicuous, 5 mm in diameter, with four small greenish-yellow petals. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 2–6 cm long and 1–3 cm broad, with finely serrated margins.
Like ivy, it also has a sterile non-flowering juvenile climbing or creeping phase, which on reaching high enough into the crowns of trees to get more light, develops into an adult, flowering phase without climbing rootlets. As such it grows to 20 m (66 ft), climbing by means of small rootlets on the stems, similar to ivy (an example of convergent evolution, as the two species are not related). It is an evergreen shrub which grows as a vine if provided with support.
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