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.U. of Washington Burke Museum: Lonicera ciliosa
Edibility The fruits have traditionally been eaten by some Native American groups.Plants For A Future -- Lonicera ciliosa However, modern sources caution that the berries may be mildly toxic and their edibility is not well established.
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.
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