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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Lonicera chrysantha' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lonicera/lonicera-chrysantha/). Accessed 2024-09-14.

Glossary

ciliate
Fringed with long hairs.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
glandular
Bearing glands.
lanceolate
Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
midrib
midveinCentral and principal vein in a leaf.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Lonicera chrysantha' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lonicera/lonicera-chrysantha/). Accessed 2024-09-14.

Lonicera chrysantha

Lonicera chrysantha flowering at Achamore in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, on 4th June 2012. Image Owen Johnson.

A deciduous shrub up to 12 ft high, with hollow branchlets; young shoots, usually rather shaggy at first, but variable in this respect and sometimes nearly glabrous; winter-buds pointed with ciliate scales. Leaves oval to ovate-lanceolate, pointed, broadly tapering or rounded at the base, 2 to 41⁄2 in. long, about half as wide, downy on the midrib above, also beneath especially on the veins; stalk 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in. long. Flowers twin, each pair borne on a slender hairy stalk 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. long, springing from the leaf-axils; they are pale yellow becoming deeper in shade with age, 3⁄4 in. long, slightly downy outside; stamens downy at the lower part; ovaries glandular. Fruits coral-red.

Native of Siberia, N. China, and Japan. It has long been in cultivation and was in the Kew collection in 1880. As a flowering bushy honeysuckle it is one of the most ornamental and very hardy.

Lonicera chrysantha

Flowers of Lonicera chrysantha are twins, each pair borne on a slender hairy stalk. Meise Botanical Garden (number 19871918 wild collected in Russia). 1 May 2023. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Lonicera chrysantha

Close up on the whitish yellow twin flowers of Lonicera chrysantha. Meise Botanical Garden (number 19871918 wild collected in Russia). 1 May 2023. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Lonicera chrysantha

Lonicera chrysantha is a deciduous shrub with hollow branchlets. Meise Botanical Garden (number 19871918 wild collected in Russia). 1 May 2023. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Lonicera chrysantha

Lonicera chrysantha is a very hardy shrub native to Siberia, north China and Japan. Meise Botanical Garden (number 19871918 wild collected in Russia). 1 May 2023. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

f. regeliana (Kirchn.) Rehd.

Synonyms
L. regeliana Kirchn

Flowers smaller, deeper yellow.

var. latifolia Korshinsky

Synonyms
L. chrysantha f. turkestanica Hort. ex Rehd

Leaves broader and stouter, less downy beneath. It resembles L. ruprechtiana in many respects, but that species has a glabrous ovary.

var. longipes Maxim

This variety differs from the type only in having the leaves rather more sparsely hairy beneath and slightly longer peduncles.

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