[MAIPC] Deer browsing on euonymus

[Stephen Hiltner]

Great to hear of another native euonymus species. I'd be amazed if deer
would begin preferring E. alatus over E. americanus, even if E. alatus
becomes more numerous. The deer love E. americanus so much, in Princeton,
NJ, that we have only two known clumps of E. americanus in the whole town
that grow large enough to fruit, due apparently to chance protection from
deer by surrounding invasives. Any others, rarely encountered, are a few
inches high. The deer definitely browse the resprouts of E. alatus, but
we'll have to see if they can keep it all contained as we cut more and more
of the mature shrubs down. Naive, I'm sure, not to use herbicide on the
stumps, but the deer collaboration is an interesting experiment. Deer also
browse resprouts of multiflora rose effectively. Hoping this collaboration
could some day extend to privet and bush honeysuckle.

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:29 PM, John Ambler <john.ambler at verizon.net> wrote:

> Steve,
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> I work on removing invasive shrubs in Lancaster Co. Central Park’s Kiwanis
> natural area.  I too see a lot of browsing on *Euonymus alatus*.  But
> some will escape and grow large enough to fruit.  I am working on removing
> the fruiting shrubs.  I also remove some of the smaller ones until patience
> wears out – there are large numbers of them under fruiting shrubs and
> scattered 100 ft. away by birds.  Fortunately they are easy to pull.
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> This county park also also has some native *Euonymus atropurpureus*,
> which is not very common in Lancaster Co.  I think they survive mainly
> where the deer don’t go.  They occur on limestone soils.  Here is a photo
> of their interesting fruit from  Dec. 6, 2015.
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> John Ambler
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> Lancaster, PA
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> *From:* frazmo [mailto:frazmo at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 03, 2017 6:14 PM
> *To:* Nathan Hartshorne
> *Cc:* maipc at lists.maipc.org; John Ambler
> *Subject:* Re: [MAIPC] FW: Question about cutting and leaving Euonymus
> alatus
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> Based on my observations and impressions,  I think cuttings are safe at
> *least* into mid-June, and likely for a few weeks after.
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> And as long as we're on this general topic, I continue to be fascinated by
> seeing signs that the White-tailed Deer are transferring their interest to
> the non-native Euonymus when it becomes more abundant than Euonymus
> americanus.
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> Cheers, Steve Young, Arlington VA volunteer
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