The alias of the ghost arrow feather is weigela.
Ghost arrow feather (scientific name: Euonymus alatus (Thunb.) Sieb.) is a plant of the family Weimanaceae Weimanaceae, also known as Weiman spear, ghost arrow, June Ling, four-faced sharp, Castor Kei Chai, four-pronged tree, mountain chicken stripes, four-faced halberd, see the swelling elimination, hemp medicine. The winged branches or winged appendages of the plant Weishaupt family Weishauptaceae. Year-round can be harvested, cut the branches, remove the shoots and leaves, sun-dried; collect its winged appendages, sun-dried.
Morphological features:
Shrub, 1-3 meters high; branchlets often with 2-4 rows of broad corky wings; winter buds rounded, about 2 mm long, the edge of the bud scales with untidy fine firm teeth. Leaves ovate-elliptic, narrow-elliptic, occasionally obovate, 2-8 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, margin serrulate, both surfaces smooth and glabrous; petiole 1-3 mm long. Cymes 1-3-flowered; peduncle ca. 1 cm, floret pedicels 5 mm long.
Flowers white-green, ca. 8 mm in diam., 4-numerous; sepals semiorbicular; petals suborbicular; stamens inserted at margin of disk, filaments very short, growing slightly after anthesis, anthers broadly oblong, 2-loculed parietally. Capsule 1-4-parted, cleavage elliptic, 7-8 mm long; seeds elliptic or broadly elliptic, 5-6 mm long, testa brown or light brown, aril orange-red, fully encapsulated seeds.