Lonicera tomentella
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Lonicera tomentella' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Lonicera albertii
- Lonicera alpigena
- Lonicera alseuosmoides
- Lonicera altmannii
- Lonicera × americana
- Lonicera angustifolia
- Lonicera × brownii
- Lonicera caerulea
- Lonicera caprifolium
- Lonicera caucasica
- Lonicera chaetocarpa
- Lonicera chrysantha
- Lonicera ciliosa
- Lonicera deflexicalyx
- Lonicera dioica
- Lonicera etrusca
- Lonicera ferdinandii
- Lonicera flava
- Lonicera fragrantissima
- Lonicera giraldii
- Lonicera griffithii
- Lonicera gynochlamydea
- Lonicera × heckrottii
- Lonicera henryi
- Lonicera hildebrandiana
- Lonicera hirsuta
- Lonicera hispida
- Lonicera iberica
- Lonicera implexa
- Lonicera japonica
- Lonicera korolkowii
- Lonicera ledebourii
- Lonicera maackii
- Lonicera maximowiczii
- Lonicera microphylla
- Lonicera morrowii
- Lonicera myrtillus
- Lonicera nervosa
- Lonicera nigra
- Lonicera nitida
- Lonicera periclymenum
- Lonicera pileata
- Lonicera prolifera
- Lonicera prostrata
- Lonicera purpurascens
- Lonicera × purpusii
- Lonicera pyrenaica
- Lonicera quinquelocularis
- Lonicera rupicola
- Lonicera ruprechtiana
- Lonicera sempervirens
- Lonicera setifera
- Lonicera similis
- Lonicera splendida
- Lonicera standishii
- Lonicera syringantha
- Lonicera tangutica
- Lonicera tatarica
- Lonicera tatsienensis
- Lonicera × tellmanniana
- Lonicera thibetica
- Lonicera tragophylla
- Lonicera trichosantha
- Lonicera xylosteum
- Lonicera yunnanensis
A deciduous shrub of erect habit, 6 to 10 ft high; branchlets woolly, outer bark splitting and becoming detached the second season. Leaves in pairs, ovate, sometimes inclined to oblong, 3⁄4 to 11⁄2 in. long, 1⁄4 to 3⁄8 in. wide, rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, bluntish or broad-pointed at the apex, dull green and sparsely downy above, grey-woolly beneath; stalk 1⁄16 in. long. Flowers produced towards the end of June, pendulous, in pairs from the leaf-axils of the young shoots, white with a pinkish tinge. Corolla about 1⁄2 in. long, downy; calyx-lobes ovate, very short, pink-tipped; style as long as the corolla-tube. Berries blue-black. Bot. Mag., t. 6486.
Native of Sikkim; introduced by Sir Joseph Hooker in 1849. This species has some affinity with and resemblance to L. rupicola, but is more erect; the leaves are in pairs, the style is longer, the calyx-lobes shorter, and the fruits black. The long style and black fruits also serve to distinguish this species from L. thibetica.