Fly Honeysuckle Seed

Lonicera xylosteum

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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.

Earn up to 3 Points.

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Description

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

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Additional information

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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