Lonicera prolifera
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Lonicera prolifera' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Caprifolium proliferum Kirchn.
- L. sullivantii A. Gray
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 ledebourii
- Lonicera ligustrina
- Lonicera maackii
- Lonicera maximowiczii
- Lonicera microphylla
- Lonicera morrowii
- Lonicera myrtillus
- Lonicera nervosa
- Lonicera nigra
- Lonicera periclymenum
- Lonicera purpurascens
- Lonicera × purpusii
- Lonicera pyrenaica
- Lonicera quinquelocularis
- 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 spreading shrub, with stems up to 6 ft long, lax, but scarcely climbing. Leaves oval, obovate or oblong, 2 to 4 in. long, 11⁄4 to 21⁄2 in. wide, glaucous and slightly downy beneath, more glaucous on the upper side, one or more of the upper pairs are united at the base, and form a roundish disk clasping the stem; of thickish substance. Flowers yellow, not fragrant, produced in June at the end of the current season’s growth in a terminal stalked spike, composed of two or more whorls, sometimes branched at the base. Corolla two-lipped, about 1 in. long, the tube longer than the lips, slender, slightly swollen on one side; glabrous outside; style slightly hairy. Berries reddish yellow, 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. diameter.
Native of central N. America; long grown in gardens – in early times as “L. flava”, which is a rarer and more beautiful shrub than L. prolifera. The latter is closer to L. dioica, a species distinguished by its shorter corolla, the tube of which is about as long as the lips, the leaves and style quite glabrous. L. prolifera does not need a support except when quite young and may be grown in the open as an elegant, loose bush.