Lonicera tatsienensis
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Lonicera tatsienensis' 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 splendida
- Lonicera standishii
- Lonicera syringantha
- Lonicera tangutica
- Lonicera tatarica
- Lonicera × tellmanniana
- Lonicera thibetica
- Lonicera tomentella
- Lonicera tragophylla
- Lonicera trichosantha
- Lonicera xylosteum
- Lonicera yunnanensis
A deciduous shrub up to 8 ft high; young shoots glabrous. Leaves oval, slightly obovate, or oblong-lanceolate, pointed, wedge-shaped to rounded at the base, entire or wavy margined on flowering shoots, often (by no means always) deeply lobed on virgin shoots, 1 to 21⁄2 in. long, 5⁄8 to 1 in. wide, sometimes with scattered hairs on both surfaces, sometimes glabrous; stalk 1⁄8 to 1⁄3 in. long. Flowers 1⁄2 in. long, borne in a pair at the end of slender stalks 1 to 11⁄2 in. long; corolla dark purple, short-tubed; stamens downy at the base. Fruits red, each pair 3⁄4 in. wide. Flowers in May.
Native of Szechwan, China; originally discovered by Père Faurie in the environs of Tatsien-lu; introduced by Wilson in 1910. Like some forms of L.japonica and L. griffithii (both climbers and very different in other respects) this species is well marked by its frequently deeply lobed leaves. Combined with its large red fruits and purple flowers, this character makes it distinct.