Lonicera caucasica
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Lonicera caucasica' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- L. orientalis var. caucasica (Pall.) Rehd.
Other taxa in genus
- Lonicera albertii
- Lonicera alpigena
- Lonicera alseuosmoides
- Lonicera altmannii
- Lonicera × americana
- Lonicera angustifolia
- Lonicera × brownii
- Lonicera caerulea
- Lonicera caprifolium
- 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 of bushy habit up to 8 or 9 ft high, rather more in diameter; winter-buds as in L. nigra; shoots quite glabrous. Leaves oval or ovate, broadly wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, pointed, 11⁄2 to 4 in. long, 1⁄4 to 11⁄2 in. wide, green above, greyish beneath, glabrous, or with a few scattered dull hairs beneath; stalk 1⁄4 in. or less long. Flowers borne during May and June in pairs from the leaf-axils of the current year’s shoots, pink, slightly fragrant, 1⁄2 in. long; corolla two-lipped; tube very short, much swollen on one side, downy within; stamens and style exposed, both downy; flower-stalk 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. long, glabrous. Fruits black, each pair wholly united by the inner edges.
Native of the Caucasus and Near East; introduced in 1825. It varies somewhat, and the description given above is of a cultivated plant. It is of no particular merit.
L. kesselringii Reg. L. savranica Spaeth; L. kamtschatica Hort.; L. orientalis var. longifolia Dipp. – Leaves oblong or oval-lanceolate 11⁄2 to 21⁄2 in. long, rarely more than 3⁄4 in. wide. Flowers pink, smaller than in L. caucasica, the corolla-tube only slightly swollen; common stalk 1⁄3 in. long. Of unknown origin. Introduced 1888.
