Lonicera nervosa
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Lonicera nervosa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
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 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 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 up to 8 ft high, with glabrous young shoots and leaves; winter-buds as in L. nigra. Leaves oval or inclined to oblong, abruptly pointed tapered to rounded at the base, 3⁄4 to 2 in. long, 1⁄2 to 1 in. wide, reddish at first, turning bright green above, the midrib and veins remaining reddish; stalk 1⁄8 to 1⁄6 in. long. Flowers pale pink, 2⁄5 in. long, produced in pairs on a slender stalk of the same length; the pairs are borne on short peduncles in the leaf-axils of very slender leafy shoots in May and June. Fruits black.
Native of China; discovered in Kansu by Przewalski in 1872; introduced from St Petersburg to Kew in 1892. It succeeds well in the Arnold Arboretum, Mass., where it is valued as a graceful bush honeysuckle with handsomely veined leaves and plentiful crops of black berries. The specific name refers to the reddish-veined leaves.
