25 Seeds Chinese Bittersweet Seeds - Celastrus Angulatus, Medicinal Plant - Flowering Vine Celastrus latifolius Hemsley. Deciduous twining shrubs; branchlets dark brown, 4-6-angular; lenticels dense, prominent, orbicular to elliptic, white; axillary buds ovate, 2-4 mm. Petiole 1.5-3 cm, strong; leaf blade ovate to orbicular, 7-18  5-14 cm, leathery, light green, glabrous, base cuneate, margin crenate, apex acute to shortly acuminate; secondary veins 5-7 pairs, obviously prominent on adaxial surface. Paniculate thyrses terminal, apically branched, 10-20 cm, 1- or 2-ramous; rachis and pedicels glabrous or with russet short hairs; pedicels short, jointed at apex. Flowers small, greenish, dioecious; sepals valvate, triangular to ovate, ca. 1.2 mm, margin approximately entire; petals rectangular, ca. 2  1.2 mm, margin erose. Disk carnose, discoid, slightly 5-lobed. Stamens ca. 3 mm, inserted on disk; staminodia in female flowers ca. 1 mm. Pistils 3-4 mm; ovary globose; style reflexed; pistillodes in male flowers ca. 1.2 mm. Capsule globose, yellow, 8-10 mm wide, 3-valved, adaxial side of valves with brown macula. Seeds elliptic, 3.5-5.5  1.5-3 mm; aril bright red. Fl. May-Jun. Our seeds/bulbs are guaranteed to be fresh but are NOT guaranteed as to results. Sorry, but there are too many variables in gardening that can impact germination. Flower seeds/bulbs are a live organism. Their germination depends on many factor including heat, cooling, sun, shade, moisture, time of sowing, etc. None of these things We can control so We can not be held responsible for them. So please do not ask for a refund, replacement or to return unused seeds/bulbs.