Thread: Honeysuckle ID
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Old 23-05-2010, 04:50 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Jeff Layman[_2_] Jeff Layman[_2_] is offline
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Default Honeysuckle ID

"Dave Poole" wrote in message
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The leaves are rather more oblong than the typically elliptic L.
tartarica, but the flower colour and other floral characters are
nearly right for the cultivar 'Hacks Red'. If you call it tartarica
you won't be wrong,


Sorry, Dave, but I can't resist it! You will be wrong because it's
"tatarica", not "tartarica"...

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Jeff