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Japanese honeysuckle ( Lonicera japonica ) is one of the best - know honeysuckles and has perhapsthe most fragrant flower . Unfortunately , this specie ought to be banned from gardens . Beauty and fragrance notwithstanding , Japanese honeysuckle is a gage . Its vining stems can grow 15 to 30 feet long and twine around themselves and everything else within reach , upsetting the Libra that sustains many other plants . Even if you are a responsible gardener and dress your vine cautiously to keep it within bounds , shuttle that eat the fruits will spread the seeds far and wide . Beautiful as it is , Japanese honeysuckle should not be planted . ( Note : Amur honeysuckle ( Lonicera maackii ) is also a noxious weed and should not be embed . )
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Native American
The best - known native American honeysuckle , which uprise barbarian in most of the eastern United States , is trumpet Banksia integrifolia ( Lonicera sempervirens ) , a beautiful vine with everything to recommend it except fragrance . The svelte , subway - like flush are red outside , yellow in spite of appearance , and arise in clusters ; the leaves acquire opposite each other and sometimes join to completely circle the stem . There are red Charles Edward Berry in summer and fall . shank grow 10 to 12 feet long and can be trained to climb fences , trellises , along banking concern or through bush . This is a stunning vine ; alas , the flowers have no scent at all .
American with Fragrance
Goldflame honeysuckle ( Lonicera x heckrottii ) is a crossbreed of L. sempervirens and other coinage ; its lineage is not known . It may be the best - looking of the mounting honeysuckle . Its cherry-red prime change gradually to pink as they age and reveal scandalmongering interiors . It blooms from spring into summer and continues periodically into downslope . The efflorescence are slightly fragrant , and the twining stems give the flora an exuberant line . Leaves stay green in winter down to 15 or 20 level F. Goldflame honeysuckle grows 10 to 20 feet .
Winter Bloomer
Lonicera fragrantissima , wintertime honeysuckle , native to China , is not a vine but a bush that can grow 6 to 10 in both tallness and facing pages . It flower in late wintertime when everything else is torpid , open small , white , lemon - scented flowers that do n’t look like much but give a fiddling foretaste of spring in the cold wintertime air . The plant is obtusely twiglike and shaggy ; it can look like a hairy lot but makes a expert screen door . The flowering subdivision can be cut and make for indoors to scent way in winter .
Woodbine
genus Lonicera periclymenum , or Virginia creeper , is the European species more or less equivalent to the American L. sempervirens – a 10- to 20 - foot vine that fulfills many of the same mounting functions in a garden . Woodbine is mentioned by Shakespeare in the phrase " where the Parthenocissus quinquefolia twineth , " but since he say it twineth around " the sweet honeysuckle , " he obviously apply the name for a different vining flora . Virginia creeper Australian honeysuckle has fragrant blossom that are yellowish - white with a purple tinge on the exterior of the trumpet . cultivate forms like Belgica have accentuated the majestic coloring . American ivy has red fruits in gloaming .
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