Japanese Honeysuckle is a twining vine that can crawl up to 10 meters high in trees.

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Japanese Honeysuckle is a twining vine that can crawl up to 10 meters high in trees. When cultivated in warmer parts of the United States, it is an evergreen plant.

However, it loses its leaves in areas where winter is really cold. Its young stems are concealed with fine hairs while the older stems become hollow and have brown barks that naturally peel off in long strips.

The leaves of such vine are about 2 inches long. They are opposite, lobed and oval-shaped. Its flowers, which start to bloom from April to July, are sweet-smelling and double-tongued and borne in pair.

From the axils of the leaves, the petal emerges. The petals have whitish pink shade, and fades to yellow. In the fall, the Honeysuckle vine bears black berries, which makes dense-tangled thickets with its stem branching, vegetative spread from rhizomes and nodal rooting.

• In the forest where it is left un-pruned and uncontrolled, it intrudes several habitats including canopies, forest floor, roadsides, wetlands and disturbed areas.

• It can encircle small saplings by interweaving around them. The vine can form dense mats in the canopies of trees.

• Native to Asia such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China, the honeysuckle vine was introduced into North America in 1800s.

• Because it is known for its quick invasion and overpowering other plants, the honeysuckle vine needs to be controlled.

• Also, by pruning, pulling shoots and cutting the base to the ground, the vine assures of abundant aromatic petals.

• It can also be cultivated in a container. Doing so would keep the rhizomes from spreading but does not stop seeds from spreaing.

• In some states, the plant is often sold in nurseries as HALLS HONEYSUCKLE and used as groundcover. Nevertheless, in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont the vine is considered a noxious weed.

In southwestern Ohio, it is virtually impossible to control honeysuckle vine because of its rapid dissemination through the black berries.

To remove honeysuckle vine, pulling its base and roots from the ground is a good start. If the plant is too large and properly established, sawing the vines on the ground with a chainsaw is recommended by the National Park Service.

A perennial woody vine of the honeysuckle family, it spreads by seeds, underground rhizomes, and above ground runners.

Stem cutting and layering are also a means of its propagation. Japanese honeysuckle provides a significant source of food for hummingbirds, rabbits, deer and other wildlife.

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