Lonicera ciliosa

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Lonicera ciliosa
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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.

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Description

A deciduous shrub growing to 6 metres (20 ft) tall with hollow twigs, the leaves are opposite, oval, 4–10 centimetres (1+12–4 in) long with the last pair on each twig merged to form a disk. The flowers are orange-yellow, 2–4 cm (341+12 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 (38 in) diameter. [1] [2]

Edibility

The fruits are sometimes considered edible, [3] [4] but may in fact be toxic. [5]

Medicinal uses

The orange honeysuckle was used as cold medicine, a contraceptive, a sedative and even as a tuberculosis remedy. [6]

In culture

The species was one of the many florae recorded during Lewis and Clark's expeditions beginning in 1804. [7]

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References

  1. "Lonicera ciliosa". Germplasm Resources Information Network . Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  2. U. of Washington Burke Museum: Lonicera ciliosa
  3. Fagan, Damian (2019). Wildflowers of Oregon: A Field Guide to Over 400 Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of the Coast, Cascades, and High Desert. Guilford, CT: FalconGuides. p. 227. ISBN   978-1-4930-3633-2. OCLC   1073035766.
  4. Plants For A Future -- Lonicera ciliosa
  5. Turner, Mark; Kuhlmann, Ellen (2014). Trees & Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest (1st ed.). Portland, OR: Timber Press. p. 305. ISBN   978-1-60469-263-1.
  6. Heaton, Darrall; DerMarderosian, Ara (2004). "An Ethnobotanical and Medical Research Literature Update on the Plant Species Collected in the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803-1806". Bartonia (62): 63–93. ISSN   0198-7356. JSTOR   41610108.
  7. "June 5, 1806". Discover Lewis & Clark. 5 June 1806. Retrieved 2023-05-28.