Lonicera involucrata
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'Lonicera involucrata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Xylosteum involucratum Richardson
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Lonicera acuminata
- Lonicera alberti
- Lonicera alpigena
- Lonicera altmannii
- Lonicera × americana
- Lonicera angustifolia
- Lonicera × brownii
- Lonicera caerulea
- Lonicera caprifolium
- Lonicera caucasica
- Lonicera chaetocarpa
- Lonicera chrysantha
- Lonicera ciliosa
- Lonicera dioica
- Lonicera etrusca
- Lonicera ferdinandi
- 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 ligustrina
- Lonicera maackii
- Lonicera maximowiczii
- Lonicera microphylla
- Lonicera morrowii
- Lonicera nervosa
- Lonicera nigra
- Lonicera periclymenum
- Lonicera purpurascens
- Lonicera × purpusii
- Lonicera pyrenaica
- Lonicera quinquelocularis
- Lonicera reticulata
- Lonicera rupicola
- Lonicera ruprechtiana
- Lonicera sempervirens
- Lonicera setifera
- Lonicera similis
- Lonicera splendida
- Lonicera tangutica
- Lonicera tatarica
- Lonicera × tellmanniana
- Lonicera tomentella
- Lonicera tragophylla
- Lonicera trichosantha
- Lonicera webbiana
- Lonicera xylosteum
- Lonicera yunnanensis
Editorial Note
The text below is adapted from Bean to reflect the updated taxonomy.
Erect shrub up to 3m in height with glandular and sparsely hairy foliage. Leaves elliptic to ovate, opposite, tips acuminate. Flowers in pairs with two pairs of leaf-like bracts forming a conspicuous involucre enveloping the ovaries. Flowers cylindric to narrowly bell-shaped, yellow, hairy, lobed; fruits fleshy, purplish-black, borne in pairs subtended by the enlarged red or purple involucre. Bell & Dempster 2012
Native of Mexico, western North America, S. Canada, and the region of the Great Lakes; introduced in 1824 (according to Loudon, the plants from this introduction grew 2 to 3 ft high). Flowers in May.
The dwarfer f. humilis Koehne ex Rehder (11⁄2 to 2 ft high) and the later-flowering f. serotina Koehne ex Rehder are now regarded as synonymous with the species. Bean notes that these forms were probably introduced from Colorado by Purpus and distributed by Späth’s nursery.
var. ledebourii (Eschsch.) Jeps.
Synonyms
Lonicera ledebourii Eschsch.
Editorial Note
The text below is adapted from Bean, who treated this variety at species rank as L. ledebourii.
A deciduous shrub of sturdy, erect habit, up to 8 or 9 ft high, and as much through; young shoots stout, four-angled, soon glabrous. Leaves ovate-oblong, rounded or narrowed at the base, pointed, 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 13⁄4 in. wide, dull dark green above, bright green and downy beneath, margins downy; stalk 1⁄4 in. long. Flowers deep orange-yellow tinged with red, produced in pairs from the leaf axils in June, each pair on a downy stalk 1 to 13⁄4 in. long, and subtended by two large, reddish, heart-shaped bracts 5⁄8 in. wide, and two smaller ones; all glandular. These bracts grow after the flower is fertilised. Corolla downy outside, tubular, 3⁄8 to 3⁄4 in. long, 3⁄16 in. wide, with a curious sac at the base; the lobes rounded, erect; stamens not longer than the tube, glabrous or nearly so; style longer, also glabrous. Berries black. Bot. Mag., t. 8555.
Native of California in coastal localities; introduced in 1838. In habit, foliage, and the long flower-stalk it has some resemblance to L. alpigena, but the short-tubed, two-lipped corolla with spreading lobes, and the tiny, linear bracts of that species are very different. A robust variety that grows well close to the sea.
Distinguished from the type variety by the greater stature (to 3.6 m in height), and the straighter cylindrical (rather than flaring) corolla tube, strongly tinged with orange or red (Bell & Dempster 2012).
