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Common Weeds
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Lonicera japonica
Japanese honeysuckle

Family CAPRIFOLIACEAE

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Common Weeds of New Zealand
by Ian Popay, Paul Champion & Trevor James
ISBN 0 473 09760 5
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New Zealand Plant Protection Society

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Lonicera japonica - Japanese honeysuckle

Sweet-scented, evergreen (semi-evergreen in cold districts), woody, rampant perennial climber twining clockwise, smothering all vegetation beneath. Very attractive, sweetly-scented, tubular white flowers. Oval leaves in opposite pairs.

  • Flowers White, ageing to yellow, tinged pink, tubular, two-lipped flowers about 4 cm long. Usually in pairs in the leaf axils. Flowers very sweet-scented. Flowers Sep-May.
  • Fruit Glossy-black, egg-shaped berries 5-7 mm in diameter. Seeds about 2 mm in diameter.
  • Leaves In opposite pairs, short-stalked or stalkless. Early spring-produced leaves are waved or lobed, summer leaves are entire, oval up to 12 cm long by 6 cm wide.
  • Stems Purplish, hairy, very long, tough, wiry.


Habitat

Fences, hedges, trees, banks, forest margins and clearings.

Distribution

Common to abundant throughout NI, especially in Auckland Province; less common and decreasing southwards in SI. Originally from east Asia.

Comments

Very attractive climber when flowering. Originally an escape from cultivation. Listed on the National Pest Plant Accord (see Introduction for details).

Derivation of botanical name

Lonicera after Adam Lonitzer, 16th cent. German botanist; japonica (Lat.) = Japanese.

 


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WeedbustersWeedbusters New Zealand
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AgPest
A free tool to assist farmers and agricultural professionals in decision-making regarding weed and pest identification, biology, impact and management.
Weed keyNew Zealand Weeds Key
An interactive identification key to the weeds of New Zealand. Developed at Landcare Research.

New Zealand Plant Conservation Network naturalised plants
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NZ Plant Protection SocietyNew Zealand Plant Protection Society
Their main objective: "To pool and exchange information on the biology of weeds, invertebrate and vertebrate pests, pathogens and beneficial organisms and methods for modifying their effects."
 
Massey UniversityMassey University Weeds Database
A site providing information about New Zealand weeds and weed control. It has a series of pages showing pictures of New Zealand weeds, notes on identification and control. It also provides information on a university paper entitled Controlling Weeds.
 

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