Dicotyledon | |
Caprifoliaceae -- The Honeysuckle Family | Bibliography |
Lonicera japonica | |
Common name(s): honeysuckle, honekakala, Japanese honeysuckle |
General Information | ||
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Distribution | Native 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. |
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Habit |
Sprawling and twining lianas; young stems pubescent. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Fruit |
Berries bluish black, globose, 6-7 mm in diameter. |
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Chromosomes |
2n = 18. |
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