Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Dicotyledon
   Caprifoliaceae -- The Honeysuckle Family Bibliography
      Lonicera japonica

Common name(s): honeysuckle, honekakala, Japanese honeysuckle
General Information
DistributionNative to Asia, widely cultivated, often escaping and becoming a serious weed in areas such as eastern North America.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Maui, Hawai`i.
















Habit
 Sprawling and twining lianas; young stems pubescent.
Leaves
 Leaves ovate, elliptic, oblong, or broadly lanceolate, blades 3-8 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, pubescent, becoming glabrate above, entire or young lower leaves sometimes lobed.
Flowers
 Flowers 2 in axillary cymes, bracts 1-2 cm long, bracteoles suborbicular, ca. 1 mm long; corolla white, turning yellowish or tinged pink, 2 lipped, 2-3 cm long.
Fruit
 Berries bluish black, globose, 6-7 mm in diameter.
Chromosomes
 2n = 18.