Lonicera alpigena

Taxobox
name = Alpine Honeysuckle

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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Dipsacales
familia = Caprifoliaceae
genus = "Lonicera"
species = "L. alpigena"
binomial = "Lonicera alpigena"
binomial_authority = L.

Alpine Honeysuckle ("Lonicera alpigena" L. [Not to be confused with "L. alpigena" C.B. Clarke, syn. "L. webbiana" Wall. ex DC.] ) is a species of honeysuckle native to mountain forests of Central and Southern Europe, sometimes cultivated as ornamental plant outside its native range. It is a deciduous shrub up to 2 m high, in late summer bearing conspicuous brilliant red inedible fruits superficially resembling cherries. "L. glehnii" F. Schmidt, which is native to Sakhalin, Kurile Islands, Hokkaido and Honshu, is sometimes considered as a geographically disjunct subspecies of Alpine Honeysuckle, "L. alpigena" L. subsp. "glehnii" (F. Schmidt) H. Hara.

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