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Lonicera japonica
Also called Chinese Honeysuckle, Gold And Silver Flower, Golden And Silver Honeysuckle, Yellow Japanese Honeysuckle
A fast-growing, twining woody vine native to East Asia, widely planted as an ornamental and groundcover, but invasive in many regions. Its key to growing is containing its spread, since it readily runs and self-seeds.
Lonicera japonica, known as Japanese honeysuckle and golden-and-silver honeysuckle, is a species of honeysuckle native to East Asia, including many parts of China. It is often grown as an ornamental plant, but has become an invasive species in a number of countries. It is used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Even though it is a highly invasive and destructive plant, this species is often sold by American nurseries as the cultivar 'Hall's Prolific' (Lonicera japonica var. halliana), and in the UK as the cultivar 'Halliana'. The cultivar is also known as Hall's Japanese honeysuckle. It is an effective groundcover and has strong-smelling flowers. It can be cultivated by seed, cuttings, or layering. In addition, it will spread itself via shoots if given enough space to grow. The variety L. japonica var. repens has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
All parts of the plant other than the flower nectar have the potential to be toxic if consumed in a very large quantity for its saponin.
The flowers can also be a significant source of food for deer, rabbits, hummingbirds, and other wildlife.
Japanese honeysuckle flowers are edible to humans and appreciated for their sweet-tasting nectar.
Fragrant Grove Honeysuckle · Sweetberry honeysuckle · Etruscan honeysuckle · Honeysuckle · Lonicera hildebrandiana · Pink honeysuckle · Amur honeysuckle · Morrow's honeysuckle · Box honeysuckle · European honeysuckle · Lonicera × purpusii · Trumpet honeysuckle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lonicera japonica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
