Lonicera caerulea
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Read about Lonicera caerulea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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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.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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