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Lonicera hildebrandiana

Botanic Family

Caprifoliaceae

Author

Collett & Hemsley

Common Names

• Giant Burmese Honeysuckle
• Giant Honeysuckle
• Da guo ren dong (Pinyin)
• Gawnkyeng (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Guangxi
• Yunnan-China
• S.E. Asia
• Myanmar
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest margins
• moist scrubland

Flowering Times

• Summer Mar-Jul (China)

Fruiting Times

• May-Aug (China)

Large evergreen or semi-evergreen glabrous woody twining shrub with leaves 120mm x 80mm, paired flowers with bracts to 2mm in leaf axils or on short racemes at tips of branchlets, fragrant 160mm long yellow & white flowers aging orange sometimes red, 5 glabrous sepals to 2mm, corolla to 160mm, tube to 90mm, lobes to 70mm, green berries to 60mm long

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• Bradshaw 1996
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• FOC
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• USNH
• The Plant List
• F Indochine