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Although the plant is toxic to many birds and other animals, the black-spined iguana (Ctenosaura similis) is known to eat the fruit and even live among the limbs of the tree. [ 10 ] The tree contains 12-deoxy-5-hydroxyphorbol-6-gamma-7-alpha-oxide, hippomanins, mancinellin, and sapogenin .
Lonicera ligustrina (女贞叶忍冬, nü zhen ye ren dong), the privet-like honeysuckle, [3] is a species of honeysuckle found in the central and eastern Himalayas of Bhutan, India, Nepal, and in southern and central China. [2]
The fruit is an edible, blue berry, somewhat cylindrical in shape weighing 1.3 to 2.2 grams (0.046 to 0.078 oz), and about 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter. [7] The plant is winter-hardy and can tolerate temperatures below −47 °C (−53 °F). [8] Its flowers are frost-tolerant. Fruits mature early and are high in vitamin C. [9]
Lonicera utahensis is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common names Utah honeysuckle, red twinberry, and fly honeysuckle.It is native to western North America from British Columbia, Washington (state), and Oregon, east to Alberta and Montana and south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico.
It is weak-wooded, poorly branched and its flowers smell like a high school locker room laundry pile. If the malodorous flowers were its worst offense, we could probably get over it.
Lonicera japonica is a twining vine [4] able to climb up to 10 m (33 ft) high or more in trees, with opposite, simple oval leaves3–8 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long and 2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) broad. When its stems are young, they are slightly red in color and may be fuzzy.
Lonicera nitida is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family. In English, it is sometimes given the common names box honeysuckle or Wilson's honeysuckle. [1] It is widely used as a low hedging plant, and for topiary. It is also a popular low-maintenance ground cover plant for urban landscaping.
Turraea obtusifolia, the small honeysuckle tree, small honeysuckle bush, or South African honeysuckle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Meliaceae, native to Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, and South Africa.