| Lonicera ciliosa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Dipsacales |
| Family: | Caprifoliaceae |
| Genus: | Lonicera |
| Species: | L. ciliosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Lonicera ciliosa | |
Lonicera ciliosa, the orange honeysuckle or western trumpet honeysuckle is a honeysuckle native to forests of western North America.
A deciduous shrub growing to 6 metres (20 ft) tall with hollow twigs, the leaves are opposite, oval, 4–10 centimetres (1+1⁄2–4 in) long with the last pair on each twig merged to form a disk. The flowers are orange-yellow, 2–4 cm (3⁄4–1+1⁄2 in) long, with five lobes and trumpet shaped; they are produced in whorls above the disk-leaf on the ends of shoots. The fruit is a translucent orange-red berry less than 1 cm (3⁄8 in) diameter. [1] [2]
The fruits are sometimes considered edible, [3] [4] but may in fact be toxic. [5]
The orange honeysuckle was used as cold medicine, a contraceptive, a sedative and even as a tuberculosis remedy. [6]
The species was one of the many florae recorded during Lewis and Clark's expeditions beginning in 1804. [7]
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