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Lonicera microphylla
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Lonicera microphylla' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
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 involucrata
- Lonicera japonica
- Lonicera korolkowii
- Lonicera ligustrina
- Lonicera maackii
- Lonicera maximowiczii
- 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
A deciduous shrub of stiff, sturdy habit, up to 3 ft high; branchlets short, glabrous. Leaves oval or obovate, 1⁄2 to 1 in. long, 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. wide, dull grey-green, above, glaucous, finely downy, and with well-defined nerves beneath; stalk 1⁄16 in. long. Flowers pale yellow, produced in pairs from the leaf-axils, on stalks 1⁄4 in. long. Corolla two-lipped, scarcely 1⁄2 in. long, the tube about as long as the lips. Berries bright red, united.
Native of the arid parts of the north-west Himalaya, Tibet, Siberia, etc.; introduced in 1818. It is suitable for the rock garden, where, however, its chief attraction would be it low, neat habit and grey aspect, for it bears flowers and fruits very sparingly in our climate.