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Fly Honeysuckle is a small to medium sized deciduous shrub with grey/blue-green foliage and untidy habit. Its flowers are not as showy as other honeysuckles, being a creamy white and flowering for 2 weeks in late spring. It is however pollution tolerant and produces red poisonous fruits later in the year. Although native to Eurasia, it is naturalised in most of America.
Lonicera xylosteum
Common name: Fly Honeysuckle.
Native: Europe
Provenance: Denmark
Size and spread (10 years): 2.5m x 2.5m
Treatment required: Mildly dormant requires 20 weeks stratification treatment.
Seeds / kg: c. 190,750 98% viable
Ideal sowing period: Spring
Soil conditions: Most well drained soils.
Planting instructions: good on woodland margins, semi shade
Mature height: 3m x 3m
pic courtesy of JF Gaffard GNUFD licence
| Weight | 5.00 g |
|---|---|
| Size | Seed Pack (approx 150 seeds) |
| Genus | Lonicera |
| Family | Caprifoliacea |
| Flowering Month | May, June |
| Colour | cream, white |
| Hardiness | Hardy |
| Life Cycle | shrub |
| Evergreen | deciduous |
| Requires | part shade |
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