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Lonicera chrysantha TurcZ.

Modern name

Lonicera chrysantha Turcz. ex Ledeb.

A deciduous shrub up to 12 ft high, with hollow branchlets; young shoots, usually rather shaggy at first, but variable in this respect and sometimes nearly glabrous; winter-buds pointed with ciliate scales. Leaves oval to ovate-lanceolate, pointed, broadly tapering or rounded at the base, 2 to 412 in. long, about half as wide, downy on the midrib above, also beneath especially on the veins; stalk 18 to 14 in. long. Flowers twin, each pair borne on a slender hairy stalk 12 to 34 in. long, springing from the leaf-axils; they are pale yellow becoming deeper in shade with age, 34 in. long, slightly downy outside; stamens downy at the lower part; ovaries glandular. Fruits coral-red.

Native of Siberia, N. China, and Japan. It has long been in cultivation and was in the Kew collection in 1880. As a flowering bushy honeysuckle it is one of the most ornamental and very hardy.

var. latifolia Korshinsky L. chrysantha f. turkestanica Hort. ex Rehd. – Leaves broader and stouter, less downy beneath. It resembles L. ruprechtiana in many respects, but that species has a glabrous ovary.

var. longipes Maxim. – This variety differs from the type only in having the leaves rather more sparsely hairy beneath and slightly longer peduncles.

f. regeliana (Kirchn.) Rehd. L. regeliana Kirchn. – Flowers smaller, deeper yellow.


Genus

Lonicera

Other species in the genus