sweet honeysuckle
plant
Also known as: Lonicera caprifolium, perfoliate honeysuckle
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- In honeysuckle: Major species
Perfoliate, or sweet, honeysuckle (Lonicera caprifolium) is native to Eurasia but has become established in North America. Its clustered night-blooming purple-white flowers are pollinated mostly by night-feeding hawk moths, because the flower tubes are too long for most other insects to reach the nectar. The fruit is a red-orange…
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