Lonicera × heckrottii
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Lonicera × heckrottii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
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 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 trichosantha
- Lonicera webbiana
- Lonicera xylosteum
- Lonicera yunnanensis
A deciduous shrub of loose, spreading, scarcely climbing habit, thought by Rehder to be a hybrid between L. sempervirens and L. americana. It is a strikingly handsome honeysuckle, its leaves being oblong or oval, glabrous, scarcely stalked, 11⁄2 to 21⁄2 in. long, glaucous beneath. The uppermost pairs are united by their bases (connate). Flowers 11⁄2 in. long, rich pink outside, yellow within; produced in whorls on a rather long-stalked, terminal spike. Corolla-tube not downy outside, slender, slightly hairy inside. Blossoms from June onwards.
This hybrid originated or was first noticed in the United States, but its history is unrecorded. It is quite hardy, and one of the best of its type of honeysuckle. So far as is known there is only one clone of this hybrid. ‘Gold Flame’ is simply a commercial name for this, not a new cultivar of L. × heckrottii (Arnoldia, Vol. 22, p. 62).