This is a hybrid between L. tragophylla and L. sempervirens ‘Superba’ raised in the Royal Hungarian Horticultural School, Budapest, from which institution it was acquired and, in 1927, put into commerce by Messrs Späth of Berlin. It was first seen in flower in London on 16 June 1931, when Sir William Lawrence showed it at Westminster from his garden at Burford, near Dorking. It was then given an Award of Merit. It is one of the most successful results in the hybridisation of honeysuckles that has been achieved, uniting in itself as it does perhaps the showiest of Chinese species and not far from the most beautiful of American ones. It is a deciduous climber with elliptical-ovate leaves 2 to 31⁄2 in. long, the upper pair united by their bases and forming a collar round the stem. The slender-tubed flowers are borne in terminal heads of six to twelve, each bloom about 2 in. long and measuring about 1 in. across the two lips of the corolla, which is of a beautiful yellow, flushed in the bud state and at the tips with bronzy red. In habit it is luxuriant and is hardy, a quality it inherits from L. tragophylla. Like all this class of honeysuckle, it likes a good soil and prefers to have its roots and lower branches in the shade.
Lonicera × tellmanniana Spaeth
Genus
Other species in the genus
- Lonicera albertii Reg.
- Lonicera alpigena L.
- Lonicera alseuosmoides Graebn.
- Lonicera altmannii Reg.
- Lonicera × americana (Mill.) K. Koch
- Lonicera angustifolia Wall.
- Lonicera × brownii (Reg.) Carr.
- Lonicera caerulea L.
- Lonicera caprifolium L.
- Lonicera caucasica Pall.
- Lonicera chaetocarpa (Batal. ex Rehd.) Rehd.
- Lonicera chrysantha TurcZ.
- Lonicera ciliosa (Pursh) Poir.
- Lonicera deflexicalyx Batal.
- Lonicera dioica L.
- Lonicera etrusca Santi
- Lonicera ferdinandii Franch.
- Lonicera flava Sims
- Lonicera fragrantissima Lindl. & Paxt.
- Lonicera giraldii Rehd.
- Lonicera griffithii Hook. f. & Thoms.
- Lonicera gynochlamydea Hemsl.
- Lonicera × heckrottii Rehd.
- Lonicera henryi Hemsl.
- Lonicera hildebrandiana Coll. & Hemsl.
- Lonicera hirsuta Eaton
- Lonicera hispida Roem. & Schult.
- Lonicera iberica Bieb.
- Lonicera implexa Sol.
- Lonicera japonica Thunb.
- Lonicera korolkowii Stapf
- Lonicera ledebourii Eschs.
- Lonicera maackii (Rupr.) Maxim.
- Lonicera maximowiczii (Rupr.) Maxim.
- Lonicera microphylla Roem. & Schult.
- Lonicera morrowii A. Gray
- Lonicera myrtillus Hook. f. & Thoms.
- Lonicera nervosa Maxim.
- Lonicera nigra L.
- Lonicera nitida Wils.
- Lonicera periclymenum L.
- Lonicera pileata Oliver
- Lonicera prolifera (Kirchn.) Rehd.
- Lonicera prostrata Rehd.
- Lonicera purpurascens Walp.
- Lonicera × purpusii Rehd.
- Lonicera pyrenaica L.
- Lonicera quinquelocularis Hardwicke
- Lonicera rupicola Hook. f. & Thorns.
- Lonicera ruprechtiana Reg.
- Lonicera sempervirens L.
- Lonicera similis Hemsl.
- Lonicera splendida Boiss.
- Lonicera standishii Jacques
- Lonicera syringantha Maxim.
- Lonicera tangutica Maxim.
- Lonicera tatarica L.
- Lonicera tatsienensis Franch.
- Lonicera thibetica Bur. & Franch.
- Lonicera tomentella Hook. f. & Thoms.
- Lonicera tragophylla Hemsl.
- Lonicera trichosantha Bur. & Franch.
- Lonicera xylosteum L.
- Lonicera yunnanensis Franch.