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 An Illustrated Guide to
Common Weeds
of New Zealand
Lonicera
japonica
Japanese
honeysuckle
Family
CAPRIFOLIACEAE
Reproduced
from
Common Weeds of New Zealand
by Ian Popay, Paul Champion & Trevor James
ISBN 0 473 09760 5
by kind permission of the
New Zealand
Plant Protection Society
Publication or other use of images or
descriptive text on these pages is unauthorised unless
written permission is obtained from the authors and
publisher.
Appropriate acknowledgement of the publication Common
Weeds of New Zealand must always be given.
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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External Links
 Weedbusters
New Zealand
- Weedbusters is a weeds awareness and education programme that aims to
protect New Zealand's environment from the increasing weed problem.
- AgPest
- A free tool to assist farmers and agricultural professionals in decision-making regarding weed and pest identification, biology, impact and management.
 New Zealand Weeds Key
- An interactive identification key to the weeds of New Zealand. Developed at Landcare Research.
New
Zealand Plant Conservation Network naturalised plants
- Search for information on more than 2500 naturalised and weedy plants.
 New
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."
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 Massey
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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