Lonicera splendida
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Lonicera splendida' 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 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 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 standishii
- Lonicera syringantha
- Lonicera tangutica
- Lonicera tatarica
- Lonicera tatsienensis
- Lonicera × tellmanniana
- Lonicera thibetica
- Lonicera tomentella
- Lonicera tragophylla
- Lonicera trichosantha
- Lonicera xylosteum
- Lonicera yunnanensis
A vigorous evergreen climber allied to L. periclymenum and L. etrusca, making growths up to 6 ft or more long in a single season. Leaves on the flowering shoots oval to oblong, 1 to 11⁄2 in. long, glabrous and glaucous, all sessile and the upper pairs connate; leaves on the extension growths smaller and stalked. Inflorescences glandular, sessile, with three to five whorls of flowers. Corolla 1 to 11⁄2 in. long, reddish purple and glandular on the outside, yellowish white within. Flowering season June to August. Bot. Mag., t. 9517.
Native of Spain; introduced about 1880. It differs from the common woodbine in having the upper pairs of leaves connate; from L. etrusca in having the flowers in a terminal stalkless spike, springing directly from the uppermost pair of leaves; and from both in its glaucous leaves and glandular inflorescences. This beautiful plant, which fully deserves its specific epithet, is not common in gardens but is hardy on a south-facing wall. There is a fine specimen in the National Trust garden at Sissinghurst in Kent.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
Graham Thomas tells us that this species grows well on warm walls in the National Trust gardens at Wallington Hall, Northumberland and Crathes Castle, south-west of Aberdeen.