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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Roma on May 26, 2019, 02:52:51 PM

Title: ? Lonicera
Post by: Roma on May 26, 2019, 02:52:51 PM

This has been puzzling me for years.  It is a shrub growing out of a pile of brushwood in my ponies' field.  Last year I posted a pic of the fruits and someone suggested it might be a Lonicera.  This is the first time I have seen it flowering.  Not very exciting.  Presumably the seed was dropped by a bird.  Sorry for the blurry picture taken in the rain today.[attachimg=1]

Title: Re: ? Lonicera
Post by: Maggi Young on May 26, 2019, 07:19:30 PM

Foliage  is  not  very lonicera-like, to my eye.    Is there an exaggerated calyx ? Looks  like there are two flowers per  calyx??

Title: Re: ? Lonicera
Post by: Gail on May 26, 2019, 08:19:35 PM

Could be lonicera involucrata?

https://www.classicroses.co.uk/lonicera-involucrata-ledebourii.html (https://www.classicroses.co.uk/lonicera-involucrata-ledebourii.html)

Title: Re: ? Lonicera
Post by: Roma on May 26, 2019, 08:41:58 PM

Quote from: Maggi Young on May 26, 2019, 07:19:30 PM

Foliage  is  not  very lonicera-like, to my eye.    Is there an exaggerated calyx ? Looks  like there are two flowers per  calyx??

Think these are bracts with 2 flowers in each pair

Title: Re: ? Lonicera
Post by: Roma on May 26, 2019, 08:43:01 PM

Quote from: Gail on May 26, 2019, 08:19:35 PM

Could be lonicera involucrata?

https://www.classicroses.co.uk/lonicera-involucrata-ledebourii.html (https://www.classicroses.co.uk/lonicera-involucrata-ledebourii.html)

Thanks, Gail.  That looks very like it.

Title: Re: ? Lonicera
Post by: Maggi Young on May 26, 2019, 09:37:17 PM

Well done,  Gail!   I've  learned a valuable  lesson there!