Spindletree (Bryaklyna)
Euonymus europaeus
About Spindletree (Bryaklyna)
Spindletree (Bryaklyna) (Euonymus europaeus) is a herb used in the Slavic & Eastern European Folk Medicine tradition to help with Fever, Digestive Issues, Skin Health, and Wound Healing, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Euonymus europaeus, the spindle, European spindle, or common spindle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to much of Europe, where it inhabits the edges of forest, hedges and gentle slopes, tending to thrive on nutrient-rich, chalky and salt-poor soils. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree. Other names include fusoria, fusanum, ananbeam, shemshad rasmi (Iran), while it may have given its name to the ancient Greek settlement of Euonymeia.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist