Euonymus tobira Thunberg, Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. 3: 208. 1780; Pittosporum tobira var. chinense S. Kobayashi.

Young branchlets and leaf blade pubescent. Inflorescences, bracts, and sepals densely brown pubescent. Ovary densely pubescent. Fl. Mar–May, fr. Jun–Oct.

Cultivated for ornament and possibly naturalized, forests, limestone areas, slopes, sandy seashores, roadsides;; sea level to 1800 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [native to S Japan and S Korea (including Cheju Island)].