0209 



HONEYSUCKLE 



Family: CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



Reproductive system: PENTANDRY, MONOGYNY. 



The Alpine honeysuckle, Lonicera alpigena, Linn., is a three or four- foot bushy 

 shrub. The branches are thick and have large, entire, oval-lanceolate, opposite leaves. The 

 reddish flowers are joined two-by-two on long peduncles. The irregular corolla has five 

 stamens. The ovary is adherent. The fruit is a berry formed by the fusion of two calices. It 

 has two compartments. One usually fails to develop; the other contains two seeds. 



FLOWERS: in May. 



RANGE: the Alps. 



The Pyrenean honeysuckle, Lonicera pyrenaica, Linn., is a three- or four- foot 

 shrub. The leaves are opposite, entire, oval-oblong, blue-green and are on somewhat thick 

 branches that are reddish on one side. The paired flowers are pendent. The monopetalous 

 corolla is almost regular, with five stamens inserted near the middle of the tube. The fruit 

 consists of two individual red berries. 



FLOWERS: in May 



RANGE: the Pyrenees and the mountains of Provence. 



The trumpet honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, Linn., is a shrub with a 

 climbing stem. The upper leaves are rounded, joined, and perfoliate. The lower ones, oval 

 and entire, have short petioles. The flowers, on a terminal spike, are a beautiful red on the 

 outside and yellow inside. The corolla with five almost regular lobes has a bulge in the 



upper part of its tube. 



FLOWERS: from May until August. 



