Lonicera alpigena

Alpine Honeysuckle ( Lonicera alpigena )

The Alpine Honeysuckle ( Lonicera alpigena ) is a plant from the family of Honeysuckle ( Caprifoliaceae ). Other names are alpine double berry or red double berry.

Features

The summer-green, only slightly branched shrub reaches a height of between one and three meters. The two -edged instincts are little hairy, the angular branches hollow.

The oppositely arranged leaves are constantly stalked about an inch long and six to eight inches long and three to five inches wide. The elliptical, pointed and smooth-edged leaf blade have a fresh green color and are very shiny hand.

The flowers are arranged in pairs on a two to five centimeters long stem in the leaf axils. The reddish, vase-shaped crown is distinctly two-lipped. Blooms from May to July. The shiny red fruits ( berries double ) ripen in August and are poisonous.

Occurrence

The Alpine Honeysuckle settled forbs and impact corridors, herb -rich mountain mixing and ravine forests, hems and ways, usually on calcareous. In the Alps, the plant rises to a height of 2300 m above sea level.

The distribution area extends from the mountains of central and southern Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Balkans. In Germany it comes northwards only to the Danube. In Austria it is often, but missing in Vienna and the Burgenland.