Young shoots and leaves bronze purple. Nerves on the underside reddish.
The flowers are purple-crimson on the outside and white on the inside.

Plants in the UK under this name seem to be identical to the best forms of L. japonica var. chinensis. So, it is said to be the Queen of the purple leaf forms.

Vigorous growing, flowers pink in bud becoming creamy-white with pink
streaks on the tube and reverse of the lobes. In color very similar to
́Heaven Scent ́.
It ́s origin is unknown, possibly from Ireland, assuming the cultivarname
indicates its origin, the south-western province of Ireland called Munster.

Leaves dark green. Flowers purplish red outside, becoming paler with age;
interior white, fading yellowish. Seedling of ‘Serotina’.

This variety is covered in pink flower buds from the beginning of July, then turning cream and finally yellow before wilting, thus producing a beautiful range of colours. During flowering it gives off a beautiful fragrance.
The leaves are mid green.

It grows in the shape of a column: the young shoots develop by turning their tips inwards towards the plant, thus reducing its volume. It can be grown in any type of soil providing it is well drained, and planted in sunny position or half shade,

Very similar to ‘Serotina’ but less vigorous with stiffer stems; will climb to a degree or grow as a free-standing bush, good for groundcover. Twigs and leaves purplish, but not so dark as in ‘Serotina’. The leaves turns plum purple in autumn. Bears heads of cream and magenta-pink flowers from rich magenta buds. Occasional vigorous upright shoots should be pruned out as required.

A cultivar with a compact growth habit and a long flowering period.
Flowers are red-purple on the outside and beige inside, and have a strong agreeable scent. Small leaves, purple-green when young, turn green with age.
Szczepan Marczynski found it as seedling in the southern part of Warsaw.

Veerman ´s nurseries has been given this name to the clone which is common in cultivation in the Netherlands. It do not special differ from the species but it is just a more marketable name.

This is a larger flowered selection with yellow flowers. Leaves bluish green.
It is not clear why this name has been given. It seems to be a misspell of Pharaoh; the flowers look like a Pharaoh´s trumpet.

Southern or chaparral honeysuckle is a straggling evergreen shrub that growsto 1 or 2 m high, is somewhat woody at the base, and generally climbs or reclines on other shrubs. Its leaves are widely elliptic to round-ovate, entire-margined, subglabrous to whitish-pubescent beneath and sometimes revolute. The upper pairs of leaves are not fused around the stem as they are in L. interrupta. The flowers are in small whorls along a spike. The calyx tube is ovoid, very short, and minutely 5-cleft. The corolla is cream-colored to yellowish, The fruit is a yellow or reddish berry.

Nativa in North America: United States. Endemic to California. On the lower dry slopes of the mountains near Santa Barbara and Santa Catalina Island, High Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountain Area, Central Western California and Southwestern California.

Needs a dry site in shade and a well drained soil with its roots in the shade and protection against cold wind. Will not tolerate water-logged soil. This very unusual species is not widely in cultivation, but needs more attention.