Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 640 - Lonicera implexa (Minorca Honeysuckle) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 640, Lonicera implexa (Minorca Honeysuckle).

• Plate: 640
• Latin name: Lonicera implexa
• Common name: Minorca Honeysuckle
• Native region: Minorca
• Flowering: Midsummer to Michaelmas
• Flower colour: Pale, Streaked With Red, White And Yellow
• Linnaean class / order: Pentandria / Monogynia
• Publication: Apr. 1, 1803
• Artist: Syd. Edwards
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

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LONICERA IMPLEXA. MINORCA HONEYSUCKLE.

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Class and Order.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cor. monopetala irregularis. Bacca polysperma 2-locularis infera.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
LONICERA implexa; floribus ringentibus verticillatis, bracteis lævibus, foliis perennantibus glabris oblongis; superioribus connato-perfoliatis; summis dilatatis. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 231. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 984.

The Minorca Honeysuckle belongs to the division of Periclymenum, and approaches very near to Lonicera Caprifolium, differing principally in having small evergreen leaves, which on the lower part of the plant are narrower with straight sides; branches intricately interwoven; whorls containing fewer flowers; tube of the corolla straighter and segments of the limb shorter in proportion. The flowers are pale coloured, streaked with red, white within when first expanded, but changing to yellow as in the common Woodbine. If lefs fhewy than some other species, it certainly yields to none in fragrance, and blossoms abundantly from Midsummer to Michaelmas. Is hardy, but thrives best in a sheltered situation. At the Dowager Lady De Clifford's, from whoe very curious collection of exotics, at Paddington, our drawing was taken in July 1801, it flourished with great vigour in the open air, in front of the conservatory. May be propagated by cuttings, as other Honey-Suckles are. Introduced, according to Hort. Kew. about the year 1772, by Monf. Richard. Never before figured.

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