Himalayan honeysuckle
Leycesteria formosa Wall.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- —
Caprifoliaceae
Formerly Leycesteria limprichtii, Leycesteria sinensis
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NE. Pakistan to SC. China and N. MyanmarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 99 cm to 3.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Arbre aux faisans, Chèvrefeuille de l'Himalaya
- German
- Schöne Leycesterie
- Portuguese
- Madressilva-dos-Himalaias
- Serbian
- Лејцестерија
- Bulgarian
- Хималайски орлови нокти
- Czech
- leycesterie krásná
- Chinese (China)
- 鬼吹箫
- Chinese
- 鬼吹簫, 喜瑪拉雅忍冬, 夜吹箫
- Dutch
- Fazantenbes
- Swedish
- axtry
- Danish
- Himalaya Leycesteria
- Russian
- Лейцестерия красивая
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Leycesteria formosa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.