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What is Honeysuckle flower?
Contents:
- Basic Botanical Data of Honeysuckle flower.
- Constituents and Phytochemicals:Honeysuckle flower.
- Effects and History of Honeysuckle flower.
- Honeysuckle flower:Indications,Combinations and Pharmacology.
- More Applications and function of Honeysuckle flower.
- Honeysuckle flower:Suggestions and Administration.
- Research Update:Honeysuckle flower.
Basic Botanical Data of Honeysuckle flower.
Honeysuckle Flower (Jinyinhua)
Pharmaceutical Name: Flos Lonicerae
Latin: Flos Lonicerae
Botanical Source: Dry flower or flower bud of following plant. 1. Lonicera japonica Thunb. L.(Reng Dong); 2. Lonicera hypoglauca Miq.(Hong Xian Reng Dong); 3. Lonicera confusa DC.(Shan Yin Hua); 4. Lonicera dsystyla Rehd.(Mao Hua Zhu Reng Dong)
Common Name:Honeysuckle flower,Lonicera flower,Woodbine, Hall's Honeysuckle, Goat's Leaf.Jin Yin Hua,Jinyinhua,RengDong Teng,Reng Dong Ye,YinHuazi.
Chinese name: Jin Yin Hua.
Family: Caprifoliaceae (honeysuckle)
Source of Earliest Record: Mingyi Bielu.History by literature of Jinyinhua in China has at least 2020 years.
Part Used and Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: The flower buds are gathered in the beginning of summer and dried in the shade.
Properties and Taste: Sweet and cold,Bitter in flavour, cold in property, acting on the lung, stomach and large intestine channels.
Meridians : Lung, stomach and large intestine
Habitat and Cultivation:Honeysuckle is native to southern Europe and the Caucasus. Jin yin hua is native to China. Both plants are commonly found growing on walls, trees, and in hedges. The flowers and leaves are gathered in summer just before the flowers open.
Plant Description
This herb is the flower buds of Lonicera japonica Thunb., or Lonicera hypoglauca Miq., or Lonicera confusa DC, or Lonicera dasystyla Rehd. (family Cap- rifoliaceae), or together with their newly-burst flowers, which are mainly produced in the provinces of Henan and Shandong. The flower buds are collected in early summer, dried in sunlight or in shade, and used unprepared.
Honeysuckle is a large genus, Lonicera, of more than 150 species of evergreen or deciduous shrubs or vines in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae, that are widespread in the Northern Hemisphere. Species of honeysuckle are valued for their tubular and often fragrant flowers. Shrub forms are used frequently in landscape plantings, but honeysuckle can become a problem because of its rampant growth.
Asiatic bush honeysuckles include winter honeysuckle, Lonicera fragrantissima, a deciduous shrub that is partially evergreen in mild-winter climates. Leaves are dark green above and blue green beneath, 2.5-7.5 cm (1-3 in) long. The creamy white flowers are not showy but have rich fragrance. Tartarian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, forms dense masses of twiggy branches and produces small pink or white flowers in late spring. Climbing species of honeysuckle include Lonicera japonica, an evergreen vine that may be deciduous in colder regions. Leaves are deep green and flowers are white with a purplish tinge. Trumpet honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, is a tall climber with orange yellow to scarlet flowers.
Species belonging to genera other than Lonicera are sometimes referred to as honeysuckles: swamp honeysuckle is Rhododendron viscosum, and Himalaya honeysuckle is Leycesteria formosa.
A climber growing to 12 ft (4 m) that is deciduous (honeysuckle, L. caprifolium) or semi evergreen (jin yin hua, L. japonica). Has paired oval leaves, yellow-orange (honeysuckle) or yellow-white (jin yin hua) tubular flowers, and red (honeysuckle) or black (jin yin hua) berries.
Origin:Honeysuckle flowers(Perfoliate honeysuckle,Burmese honeysuckle,Honeysuckle Flower,Woodbine)
Honeysuckle flower refers to any of about 200 species of ornamental shrubs and climbers of the genus Lonicera of the family Caprifoliaceae.
Honeysuckles are native to temperate zones of both hemispheres, but they also grow in the Himalayas, southern Asia, and North Africa. Honeysuckles flourish in any ordinary garden soil. Most species have two-lipped, fragrant flowers and red, orange, or black berries.
Perfoliate, or sweet, honeysuckle (L. caprifolium) is native to Eurasia but has become established in North America. Its clustered, night-blooming, purple-white flowers are pollinated mostly by night-feeding hawk moths because the flower tubes are too long for most other insects to reach the nectar. The fruit is a red-orange berry.
Another climbing species is the giant Burmese honeysuckle (L. hildebrandiana), with 15-centimetre, deep green leaves, 17-centimetre yellow flowers, and 2.5-centimetre green berries.
The Honeysuckle Flower (L. japonica) of eastern Asia has become a weed in many areas by growing over other plants and shutting out light. It has fragrant, yellowish white flowers and black berries. It is this species that the Chinese use as a heat clearing and toxic cleancing herb.
Trumpet honeysuckle (L. sempervirens) has oval, sometimes joined leaves and climbs high in forest trees. Its orange-scarlet spikes of 5-centimetre, tubular, five-lobed flowers and red berries are common throughout eastern North America.
Woodbine (L. periclymenum), native to Eurasia, twines to 6 m. Its whorled, many-flowered clusters of yellowish, purple-tinged blooms are followed by red berries. Some of the garden varieties of woodbine are prized for their delicious fragrance.
Some of the more widespread shrub honeysuckles are Tartarian honeysuckle (L. tartarica), from southeastern Europe and Siberia, and four Chinese species: winter honeysuckle (L. fragrantissima), privet honeysuckle (L. pileata), box honeysuckle (L. nitida), and lilac honeysuckle (L. syringantha).
The Honeysuckle Flower, Lonicera japonica Thund., a perennial semi-evergreen, is native to East Asia, and grown everywhere in China. It is now locally naturalized in Britain as well. The evergreen climber grows to 5 m by 5 m at a fast rate. It is in leaf all year, in flower from June to July. The scented flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by moths.
As an herb, it is harvested at the beginning of summer, when the buds are getting ready to bloom, then are dried in the shade and used when raw or after being fried or made into a distillate.
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1.What is Honeysuckle flower?
last edit date:3rd,Mar.2010.
- Name:Honeysuckle extract
- Serie No:R052.
- Specifications:5:1TLC.
- INCI Name:LONICERA CAPRIFOLIUM EXTRACT,LONICERA JAPONICA EXTRACT.
- EINECS/ELINCS No.:283-263-6
- CAS:84603-62-3,223749-79-9
- Chem/IUPAC Name:Lonicera Caprifolium Extract is an extract of the flowers of the honeysuckle, Lonicera caprifolium,Caprifoliaceae Lonicera Japonica Extract is an extract of the flowers of Lonicera japonica, Caprifoliaceae
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