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Lonicera alseuosmoides Graebn.

Modern name

Lonicera acuminata Wall.

A climbing evergreen shrub, with slender, glabrous, young shoots. Leaves narrowly oblong, tapered at both ends, 114 to 2 in. long, averaging about 14 to 13 in. wide, the decurved margins furnished with appressed hairs, otherwise glabrous. Flowers produced from July to October at the apex of the shoot, and in the terminal leaf-axils, the whole forming a short broad panicle. Corolla purple within, yellow outside, funnel-shaped, 12 in. long, glabrous outside, downy within. Fruits globose, 16 to 14 in. in diameter, black covered with purple bloom, borne in a close head.

Native of China; introduced by Wilson for Messrs Veitch about 1904. An interesting and pretty climber, which first flowered at Coombe Wood in 1909. Closely akin to L. henryi, which has hairy young shoots and bigger leaves.


Lonicera alseuosmoides

Lonicera alseuosmoides

Genus

Lonicera

Other species in the genus