Lonicera altmannii
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Lonicera altmannii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Lonicera albertii
- Lonicera alpigena
- Lonicera alseuosmoides
- Lonicera × americana
- Lonicera angustifolia
- Lonicera × brownii
- Lonicera caerulea
- Lonicera caprifolium
- Lonicera caucasica
- Lonicera chaetocarpa
- Lonicera chrysantha
- Lonicera ciliosa
- Lonicera deflexicalyx
- Lonicera dioica
- Lonicera etrusca
- Lonicera ferdinandii
- Lonicera flava
- Lonicera fragrantissima
- Lonicera giraldii
- Lonicera griffithii
- Lonicera gynochlamydea
- Lonicera × heckrottii
- Lonicera henryi
- Lonicera hildebrandiana
- Lonicera hirsuta
- Lonicera hispida
- Lonicera iberica
- Lonicera implexa
- Lonicera japonica
- Lonicera korolkowii
- Lonicera ledebourii
- Lonicera maackii
- Lonicera maximowiczii
- Lonicera microphylla
- Lonicera morrowii
- Lonicera myrtillus
- Lonicera nervosa
- Lonicera nigra
- Lonicera nitida
- Lonicera periclymenum
- Lonicera pileata
- Lonicera prolifera
- Lonicera prostrata
- Lonicera purpurascens
- Lonicera × purpusii
- Lonicera pyrenaica
- Lonicera quinquelocularis
- Lonicera rupicola
- Lonicera ruprechtiana
- Lonicera sempervirens
- Lonicera setifera
- Lonicera similis
- Lonicera splendida
- Lonicera standishii
- Lonicera syringantha
- Lonicera tangutica
- Lonicera tatarica
- Lonicera tatsienensis
- Lonicera × tellmanniana
- Lonicera thibetica
- Lonicera tomentella
- Lonicera tragophylla
- Lonicera trichosantha
- Lonicera xylosteum
- Lonicera yunnanensis
A deciduous shrub 6 to 8 ft high; young shoots purplish hairy; winter-buds with two outer scales. Leaves ovate or oval, 3⁄4 to 2 in. long, half to three-fourths as wide, rounded or tapered at the base, mostly pointed, ciliate, more or less hairy; stalk 1⁄6 in. or less long. Flowers in pairs, each pair subtended by two hairy bracts 1⁄4 in. long; corolla white, 1⁄2 in. long, the slender tubular base rather longer than the lobes, and with a protuberance near the base, hairy outside; flower-stalk about 1⁄4 in. long. Berries 1⁄3 in. wide, orange-red.
Native of Turkestan; introduced from St Petersburg in 1899, but very rare. It belongs to the same group as L. hispida, but has comparatively inconspicuous bracts, and the corolla-tube differs in being longer than the lobes. Flowers in April and May.