Evergreen honeysuckle
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The Lonicera Pileata ( Lonicera pileata ) is a small shrub with fragrant, 7 to 8 millimeters large flowers from the family of the Caprifoliaceae (Caprifoliaceae). The natural range is in China. It is very often used as an ornamental plant because of the decorative berries.
description
The evergreen creeping honeysuckle is an evergreen, spread out to 0.5 to 1, rarely 1.5 meter high shrub with thin, non-hollow branches and hairy shoots. The leaves are arranged in two rows and have a short stalk. The leaf blade is simple, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 40 millimeters long and 4 to 15 millimeters wide, with a blunt or rounded tip and a wedge-shaped base. The upper side of the leaf is dark green and shiny, the underside is lighter and sparsely hairy or glabrous along the median nerve .
The fragrant flowers grow axially in pairs on short stems. The bracts are subpulate and about as long as the ovary . The bracts are fused cup-like. The pale yellow corolla is funnel-shaped, 7 to 8 millimeters long and hairy inside and out. The coronet is regular, the corolla tube strongly bumpy and longer than the hem. The stamens and the style tower above the coronary band significantly. As fruits spherical, 5 millimeters by measuring, purple-violet in fruit ripening are berries formed.
The evergreen creeping honeysuckle flowers in May and June.
Lonicera ligustrina has the chromosome number 2n = 18 or 22.
distribution
The natural range is in central and western China. The evergreen creeping honeysuckle grows in cool, moist forests, bushes and hedges, on moderately dry to fresh, slightly acidic to alkaline, not too nutrient-rich soils in shady, cool to cold locations. The species is moderately frost hardy . The distribution area is assigned to winter hardiness zone 6b with mean annual minimum temperatures of −20.5 to −17.8 ° C (−5 to 0 ° F).
Systematics
The Lonicera Pileata ( Lonicera pileata ) is a kind of the genus of honeysuckle ( Lonicera ) in the family of Honeysuckle (Caprifoliaceae). There the genus is assigned to the subfamily Caprifolioideae. The species was first scientifically described by Daniel Oliver in 1887 . The generic name Lonicera is reminiscent of the German mathematician, doctor and botanist Adam Lonitzer (Latin Lonicerus). The specific epithet pileata is late Latin and means “wearing a felt cap”.
use
The evergreen creeping honeysuckle is often used as an ornamental plant because of its decorative fruits .
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literature
- Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , pp. 388-389.
- Jost Fitschen: Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 570 .
- Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).
Individual evidence
- ↑ German name according to Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 388 and after Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 570
- ↑ Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , p. 388
- ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 389
- ↑ Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 570
- ↑ Lonicera ligustrina at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ a b Lonicera pileata . In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed September 22, 2012 .
- ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 349
- ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 484
Web links
- Lonicera pileata . In:The Plant List. Retrieved September 22, 2012.