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Lonicera japonica
Vine w/fragrant tubular flowers, white turning yellow w/age, in pairs in the leaf axils. Flowers 3.8cm long. Leaves to 7.5 cm long, opposite ovate, untoothed evergreen & hairy. Twigs hairy also. Fruit a black berry. Flowers April-July, sometimes in fall.
Woodlands, roadsides, etc.
Reportedly from Asia. Can grow 9 m per year. A sweet nectar can be sucked from the base of the corlla.
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I enjoy eating Honeysuckle nectar as well. We used to teach our summer campers how to do it.
Yes, and nectar is sweet, I remember doing that when I was 10, way back when earth was still flat...
Are flowers fragrant ?