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Lonicera chaetocarpa (Batal. ex Rehd.) Rehd.

Modern name

Lonicera hispida Pall. ex Schult.

Synonyms

L. hispida var. chaetocarpa Batal. ex Rehd.

An upright deciduous shrub 5 to 7 ft high; shoots bristly and glandular. Leaves ovate to oblong, sometimes oval, 112 to 3 in. long, blunt to pointed at the apex, bristly, especially beneath. Flowers in pairs or solitary, borne on hairy stalks up to 34 in. long; corolla tubular, 114 in. long, dividing at the mouth to five roundish spreading lobes, primrose yellow, hairy and glandular outside; ovary densely glandular and bristly. Berries bright red. Bot. Mag., t. 8804.

Native of W. China; introduced for Messrs Veitch by Wilson in 1904. It is an attractive shrub of comely habit, closely akin to L. hispida, which differs in its more slender corolla-tube and its glabrous or glandular ovary and in being less but more harshly hairy. It is quite hardy and flowers in June.


Lonicera chaetocarpa

Lonicera chaetocarpa

Genus

Lonicera

Other species in the genus