This evergreen shrub nestled in the South Walk is bearing attractive fruits.
Euonymus tingens is a native of temperate and tropical Asia, and was first described by the botanist Nathaniel Wallich in 1824. It is likely that it was introduced into cultivation by Joseph Hooker in the mid-1800s, though it is rarely grown. It has glossy, narrow, toothed leaves and small cymes of creamy white flowers and produces globose fruits, which open to reveal an orange-scarlet aril. Though considered a shrub E. tingens often takes the form of a single-stemmed tree to 8m in height.