Scientific Name: Euonymus japonicus 'Paloma Blanca'
Common Name: Paloma Blanca euonymus
Family Name: Celastraceae
Origin: Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Broadleaf evergreen
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Group or mass planting, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Spring interest, Winter interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Leathery, Glabrous, Elliptic, Ovate, Serrate
Flowers: Cyme, White, Green, May-Jun
Fruit: Capsule, (Accessory tissue), Orange, Pink, Jul-Aug
Key ID Features:
Small, compact evergreen shrub; leaves opposite, elliptic, 2-4cm long x 1-2cm wide, margin serrate-crenate, emerge greenish-white and then slowly turn dark green.