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Caprifoliaceae
Japanese Honeysuckle
Lonicera japonica
Sweet bonds of love.
- Family
- Caprifoliaceae
- Genus
- Lonicera
- Native to
- East Asia
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer
- Type
- vine
- Height
- 15-30 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun to part shade
- Soil
- adaptable, any well-drained
- Water
- moderate
- Hardiness
- 4-11
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- Children often pull out the pistil to taste the sweet drop of nectar at the base of the flower.
- The flowers open white and gradually turn yellow, so both colors appear on the vine simultaneously.
- In Traditional Chinese Medicine, known as 'jin yin hua' (gold silver flower), it is used to treat fevers.
- It is one of the most aggressively invasive plants in the Eastern United States.
- The genus is named after Adam Lonicer, a 16th-century German botanist and physician.
Color meanings
0
devoted affection
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generosity