Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lonicera japonica
Common name
Japanese honeysuckle, Honeysuckle vine
Family
Caprifoliaceae
Where found
Rainforest, bushland, grassy areas, disturbed sites, along streams, and moist gullies. Widespread. Rarely on the tablelands, Kosciuszko National Park and Western Slopes.
Notes
Introduced climber or scrambling shrub, to 10 m high, evergreen or semideciduous, rooting from the nodes. Fruit fleshy. Young stems hairy, greenish or reddish, often with horizontal ridges between the leaf bases. Older stems may be thick and woody, developing greyish bark as they age. Leaves opposite each other, 2.5–8 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, tips pointed to blunt, both surfaces sparsely hairy but upper surface becoming hairless with age, margins usually entire, juvenile leaves sometimes somewhat lobed. Flowers fragrant, white, often pink to purplish outside, turning yellowish with age, 20–50 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, the upper lip with 4 lobes, the lower lip 1-lobed. Flowers paired in clusters. Ripe fruit shiny black, oval, 5–10 mm long.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW. Pest plant ACT.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lonicera~japonica (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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