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

Lonicera × purpusii ′Winter Beauty′ - Winter Habit
 Family:
 Genus:
 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
 Light Requirements:
 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.
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Parts and Problems of Honeysuckle
  Special Characteristics:
  • Flowering Characteristics 356
  • Border 396
  • Hedge 277
  • Screen 190
  • Specimen 630
  • Winter Interest 117

    • 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.

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