About Lonicera alpigena L.
Lonicera alpigena L., commonly called alpine honeysuckle, is a honeysuckle species native to mountain forests in Central and Southern Europe. This plant is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental outside of its native range. It is a deciduous shrub that can reach up to 2 meters in height. In late summer, it produces prominent, bright red inedible fruits that look superficially similar to cherries. Lonicera glehnii F. Schmidt, a species native to Sakhalin, the Kurile Islands, Hokkaido, and Honshu, is sometimes treated as a geographically isolated subspecies of alpine honeysuckle, under the scientific name Lonicera alpigena L. subsp. glehnii (F. Schmidt) H. Hara.
