Lonicera × purpusii 'Winter Beauty'
Purple-Stem Winter Honeysuckle

 Plant Type:
 Growth Forms:
 Hardiness:
 Deciduous / Evergreen:
 Flower Notes:
White (Creamy white fragrant flowers in the winter to early spring)
 Foliage Notes:
Green (Dark green summer foliage; no appreciable fall color)
 Fruit Notes:
Red (Rarely produced)
 Ultimate Height:
5-7 feet
 Ultimate Spread:
5-8 feet
 Soil Notes:
Widely adapted to soils, but avoid wet soils
 Range:
Cultivated origin
 Diagnostic Characteristics:
The dark green leaves are opposite, simple, ovate, and acuminate. Stems are red-purple. Flowers, borne in late winter and early spring, are 0.75" long, short tubed, and have yellow anthers.

Additional Information

'Winter Beauty' is a dense, rounded semi-evergreen shrub that has red-violet stems and produces an abundance of fragrant white flowers in late winter and early spring. Rejuvenate periodically by cutting back 6-12" from the ground.

1 Lonicera × purpusii 'Winter Beauty' found

Building Map...

Loading...
= Heritage plant = Memorial plant
Number Accession ID Location
12009_12287*ABCHM

Other plants like this Lonicera × purpusii 'Winter Beauty' (Purple-Stem Winter Honeysuckle)

The Purdue Arboretum is a collaboration between the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture and Physical Facilities Grounds Department

Purdue Arboretum, 625 Agriculture Mall Dr, West Lafayette, IN, 47907
© 2024 Purdue University | An equal access/equal opportunity university | Integrity Statement | Copyright Complaints | Maintained by the Purdue Arboretum
Contact Purdue Arboretum at arboretum@purdue.edu for accessibility issues with this page | Accessibility Resources | Contact Us