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Spindle: Feoras: Euonymus Europaeus.

Though playing a major role in 'The Sleeping Beauty", and displaying an extraordinary conspicuous fruit enclosed in a cherry-pink capsule in Autumn, the spindle here is undistinguished now. It is at scrub level here but can grow to 6m tall. It has no trunk and the twigs have four angles bearing opposite pairs of narrow oval pointed, bright gum leaves. It is native throughout Ireland and is found in limestone areas.

Its wood is hard, tough and white and used as toothpicks, skewers and spindles. Its fruit is poisonous to humans and animals however not so for the birds who spread the seeds.

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