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Japanese Honeysuckle

Japanese Honeysuckle
Photo: © immij pty ltd
Invasive Plant
Japanese Honeysuckle
Lonicera japonica
 

This scrambling or climbing shrub can grow up to 8m high. It has glossy dark green leaves and fragrant nectar filled white flowers that age to yellow. Summer flowers are followed by small shiny black berries in Autumn.

 

HOW IT SPREADS

  • The seeds are dispersed by water and birds. The stems take root where they touch the ground.
  • The plant is also often dumped on roadsides and bushland edges.
  • Whilst once a common garden plant, this Honeysuckle is now a seriously invasive plant in many moist native bushland areas.
 
 
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Other superior selections include;

  • Mansoa alliacea - Garlic Vine
  • Trachelospermum jasminoides - Star Jasmine

Ask your local retailer for more superior selections

 

Alternative Plants

Bower of Beauty
Photo: Macbird Floraprint
Alternative Plant Bower of Beauty
Pandorea jasminoides
Climbing and Ground Cover Plants
 

Vigorous climber to spreading shrub with dark green glossy pinnate leaves. Flowers are borne in terminal clusters in the warmer months and are pink with a dark carmine throat. There are several cultivars including 'Lady Di' that has cream flowers.

Snake Vine
Photo: Lorna Rose
Alternative Plant Snake Vine
Hibbertia scandens
Climbing and Ground Cover Plants
 

Slender twining climber or trailing groundcover plant. It has dark green leaves and plentiful large buttercup yellow flowers in the warmer months. This plant is drought and frost resistant and tolerant of salt spray.

Wonga Wonga Vine
Photo: Lorna Rose
Alternative Plant Wonga Wonga Vine
Pandorea pandorana
Climbing and Ground Cover Plants
 

Vigourous Australian native twining plant. Flowers are tubular and creamy-white with purple or brownish markings and appear in spring and summer. Several new cultivars have been developed including 'Snowbells' with pure white flowers and 'Golden Showers' with yellow-bronze flowers.

 
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