Lonicera caerulea

Lonicera caerulea subsp. var.
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Lonicera caerulea, Linn. Much-branched erect or spreading shrub, to 5 ft., with glabrous or pubescent branchlets: Lonicera winter-buds often several, superposed: lvs. often stipulate, oval or obovate to oblong-lanceolate, pubescent or almost glabrous, pale or glaucous green, 1-2 in. long: fls. short-peduncled, yellowish or greenish white, 1/3 -½ in. long: fr. blue, bloomy; berries connate only at the base, but wholly covered by the connate bractlets and hence seemingly connate. April, May. N. Eu., N. Asia and N. Amer. B.M. 1965.—A very variable species; the typical form is a spreading shrub with elliptic to oblong lvs. glabrescent like the branchlets and occurs in Eu. and N. Asia. Var. altaica, Sweet (L. Pallasii, Lcdeb.). Branchlets and lvs. hirsute: fr. subglobose. N. Eu. to Japan. Var. edulis. Regel. Lvs. oblong to lanceolate, pubescent like the branchlets: fr. oblong. E. Siberia, Tibet. Var. graciliflora, Dipp. (L. Karelinii, Hort., not Bunge). With upright rather slender, bright red branches, slightly pubescent: lvs. ovate to ovate-oblong, puberulous on both sides: fls. with slender tube. Var. villosa, Torr. & Gray (L. villosa, Muhl. Xylosteum Solonis, Eaton). Shrub, to 3 ft. with upright branches: winter-buds upright, always solitary: lvs. oval or obovate to oblong, usually pubescent: corolla campanulate, tube as long or shorter than limb. N. Amer. south to Tenn., Wis. and Calif. B.B. (ed. 2) 3:281. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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