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Lonicera angustifolia Wall.

Modern name

Lonicera angustifolia Wall. ex DC.

A deciduous shrub 8 to 10 ft high, of rounded elegant habit, the outer branches pendulous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, rounded or tapering at the base, slender pointed, 34 to 2 in. long, 14 to 12 in. wide, bright green and glabrous above except at first, paler and slightly downy beneath, especially on the midrib; stalk 112 in. or less long, woolly. Flowers pinkish white, produced in May and June in pairs from the lower leaf-axils of the young branchlets, each pair on a slender drooping stalk 12 to 58 in. long. Corolla tubular, the tube 13 in. long, the lobes equal, about one-third as long as the tube. Style quite short and hidden. Berries red, edible; each pair united.

Native of the Himalaya; introduced by Sir Joseph Hooker about 1849. If it flowered more freely it would be an attractive shrub, as it is perfectly hardy and of elegant growth; its flowers are fragrant.

It is allied to L. myrtillus, but differs in its longer, differently shaped leaves and drooping peduncles.


Genus

Lonicera

Other species in the genus