Lonicera trichosantha
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Lonicera trichosantha' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Infraspecifics
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 microphylla
- 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 webbiana
- Lonicera xylosteum
- Lonicera yunnanensis
A deciduous bush, of vigorous growth and rounded, dense, leafy habit, probably 8 ft or more high, the whole plant with a pale greyish aspect; young shoots at first downy, becoming glabrous later in the season. Leaves oval, often inclined to obovate, rounded or broadly wedge-shaped at the base and short pointed or rounded at the apex, 1 to 2 in. long, 1⁄2 to 11⁄4 in. wide, dull grey-green above, paler beneath, both sides at first downy becoming almost glabrous, especially above; stalk 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in. long. Flowers pale yellow, fading to a deeper shade; corolla 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. long, hairy outside, swollen at the base. Calyx bell-shaped, but split into two parts. Berries dark red.
Native of Szechwan, China; discovered by the Russian traveller Potanin. Introduced in quantity by Wilson about 1908. A robust species of the same class as L. quinquelocularis.
var. deflexicalyx (Batalin) P.S.Hsu & H.J.Wang
Synonyms
Lonicera deflexicalyx Batalin
Editorial Note
Treated by Bean under the name Lonicera deflexicalyx.
A deciduous shrub of elegant spreading habit; branches often horizontal or drooping, the branchlets in opposite rows, hollow; young shoots purple, downy. Leaves 11⁄2to 3 in. long, scarcely half as wide, rounded at the base, narrowly ovate, pointed, dull green and downy above, greyish and hairy beneath, especially when young; stalk 1⁄3 in. long. Flowers in pairs from each axil along the branchlets, all expanding upwards; calyx dry, scarcely lobed, splitting down one side; corolla yellow, 5⁄8 in. long, downy outside, the lower lip much deflexed, tube shorter than the lobes; stamens hairy at the base; style wholly hairy; stalk 1⁄4 in. long; fruits orange-red. Bot. Mag., t. 8536.
Native of China and Tibet; introduced in 1904. A notably elegant, free-growing shrub, very hardy and floriferous, showing its flowers to good advantage by producing them on the upper side of the long feathered branches. It flowers in May and June, and grows probably 8 ft or so high.
var. xerocalyx (Diels) Rehd.Synonyms
L. xerocalyx Diels
Leaves slightly longer and narrower, somewhat glaucous beneath; ovaries surrounded by a cupula made up of the united bractlets. Introduced by Forrest from Yunnan.
var. trichosantha
Synonyms
Lonicera ovalis Batalin
Lonicera prostrata Rehder
A deciduous bush of low, rounded habit, forming a hemispherical mass of slender hollow branches; young shoots slightly hairy and purplish. Leaves oval or ovate, tapered at both ends, but more abruptly at the base; 3⁄4 to 11⁄8 in. long, 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. wide, ciliate, upper surface downy at first, becoming glabrous, midrib and chief veins sparsely downy beneath; leaf-stalk hairy, 1⁄10 in. long. Flowers pale yellow, not fragrant, borne in pairs from the leaf-axils on slightly downy stalks, 1⁄4 in. long; corolla 5⁄8 in. long, two-lipped, the tube not so long as the lips, hairy within and without; stamens and style hairy at the base; bracts linear, hairy, 1⁄6 in. long; bractlets rounded, ciliate. Berries distinct egg-shaped, reddish, 1⁄4 to 1⁄3 in. long.
Synonyms
L. xerocalyx Diels
Synonyms
Lonicera ovalis Batalin
Lonicera prostrata Rehder
A deciduous bush of low, rounded habit, forming a hemispherical mass of slender hollow branches; young shoots slightly hairy and purplish. Leaves oval or ovate, tapered at both ends, but more abruptly at the base; 3⁄4 to 11⁄8 in. long, 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. wide, ciliate, upper surface downy at first, becoming glabrous, midrib and chief veins sparsely downy beneath; leaf-stalk hairy, 1⁄10 in. long. Flowers pale yellow, not fragrant, borne in pairs from the leaf-axils on slightly downy stalks, 1⁄4 in. long; corolla 5⁄8 in. long, two-lipped, the tube not so long as the lips, hairy within and without; stamens and style hairy at the base; bracts linear, hairy, 1⁄6 in. long; bractlets rounded, ciliate. Berries distinct egg-shaped, reddish, 1⁄4 to 1⁄3 in. long.
Native of W. China; discovered and introduced by Wilson about 1904. It is not of any special beauty in flower, but its prostrate habit is distinct, and will make it useful for ground cover. It used to thrive in the Coombe Wood nursery, where it flowered about the beginning of June.