Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 6 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| China North-Central | CHN | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China South-Central | CHC | |
| China Southeast | CHS | |
| Assam | ASS | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| East Himalaya | EHM | |
| Nepal | NEP |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 1,285 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -6.1 °C | 1.6 °C | 4.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 17.6 °C | 20.5 °C | 25.0 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 644 mm | 884 mm | 1,449 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 110 mm | 171 mm | 268 mm |
It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,285 research-grade observations of Lonicera ligustrina that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 15 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Caprifolium ligustrinum Kuntze
- Caprifolium pileatum Kuntze
- Lonicera buxifolia H.Lév.
- Lonicera ligustrina subsp. ligustrina
- Lonicera ligustrina subsp. yunnanensis (Franch.) P.S.Hsu & H.J.Wang
- Lonicera ligustrina var. ligustrina
- Lonicera missionis H.Lév.
- Lonicera nitida E.H.Wilson
- Lonicera pileata Oliv.
- Lonicera pileata f. yunnanensis (Franch.) Rehder
- Lonicera pileata var. linearis Rehder
- Lonicera pileata var. yunnanensis (Franch.) Bernd Schulz
- Lonicera wightiana Wall.
- Lonicera wightianum Wall.
- Xylosteon ligustrinum (Wall.) D.Don
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol LONI5. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.