Lonicera flava
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Lonicera flava' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Lonicera albertii
- Lonicera alpigena
- Lonicera alseuosmoides
- Lonicera altmannii
- 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 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
The real L. flava is perhaps not now in cultivation, or, if it be, it is extremely rare. It appears to be very local in its distribution, and was originally discovered on the summit of Paris Mountain, in S. Carolina, by John Fraser; introduced early in the 19th century. The plants that went in cultivation under the name were either L. prolifera or L. glaucescens, both of which are inferior to it. It is about the most beautiful of American honeysuckles. The bright orange-yellow flowers are about 11⁄4 in. long, the corolla-tube glabrous outside, slenderly tapered downwards, not bellied. The flowers are produced in two or more whorls on a stalked, terminal inflorescence; style glabrous. Leaves rather glaucous beneath, glabrous, the uppermost one to three pairs connate, not glaucous above as they are in L. prolifera. Bot. Mag., t. 1318.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
What is believed to be the true species is illustrated in The Garden (Journ. R.H.S.), Vol. 104, p. 218 (1979). The plant photographed was growing at the Henry Foundation near Philadelphia, USA.