Lonicera ciliosa

Lonicera ciliosa, the orange honeysuckle or western trumpet honeysuckle is a honeysuckle native to forests of western North America.

Description

A deciduous shrub growing to tall with hollow twigs, the leaves are opposite, oval, long with the last pair on each twig merged to form a disk. The flowers are orange-yellow, long, with five lobes and trumpet shaped; they are produced in whorls above the disk-leaf on the ends of shoots. The fruit is a translucent orange-red berry less than diameter.

Edibility

The fruits are sometimes considered edible, but may in fact be toxic.

Medicinal uses

The orange honeysuckle was used as cold medicine, a contraceptive, a sedative and even as a tuberculosis remedy.

In culture

The species was one of the many florae recorded during Lewis and Clark's expeditions beginning in 1804.