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 An
Illustrated Guide to
Common Weeds
of New Zealand
Lonicera
japonica
Japanese
honeysuckle
Family
CAPRIFOLIACEAE
Reproduced
from
Common
Weeds of New Zealand
by Ian Popay, Paul Champion & Trevor James
ISBN 0 473 09760 5
by kind permission of the
New
Zealand Plant Protection Society
Publication or other use of images or descriptive
text on these pages is unauthorised unless written permission is
obtained from the authors and publisher.
Appropriate acknowledgement
of the publication Common Weeds of New Zealand must always
be given.
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Sweet-scented, evergreen
(semi-evergreen in cold districts), woody, rampant perennial climber
twining clockwise, smothering all vegetation beneath. Very attractive,
sweetly-scented, tubular white flowers. Oval leaves in opposite
pairs.
- Flowers White,
ageing to yellow, tinged pink, tubular, two-lipped flowers about
4 cm long. Usually in pairs in the leaf axils. Flowers very sweet-scented.
Flowers Sep-May.
- Fruit Glossy-black,
egg-shaped berries 5-7 mm in diameter. Seeds about 2 mm in diameter.
- Leaves In
opposite pairs, short-stalked or stalkless. Early spring-produced
leaves are waved or lobed, summer leaves are entire, oval up to
12 cm long by 6 cm wide.
- Stems Purplish,
hairy, very long, tough, wiry.
Habitat
Fences, hedges, trees,
banks, forest margins and clearings.
Distribution
Common to abundant
throughout NI, especially in Auckland Province; less common and
decreasing southwards in SI. Originally from east Asia.
Comments
Very attractive climber
when flowering. Originally an escape from cultivation. Listed
on the National Pest Plant Accord
(see Introduction for details).
Derivation
of botanical name
Lonicera
after Adam Lonitzer, 16th cent. German botanist; japonica
(Lat.) = Japanese.
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Web-notes:
Weed Links
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of New Zealand:
External Links
 Weedbusters
New Zealand
- Weedbusters is a weeds awareness and education programme that aims to
protect New Zealand's environment from the increasing weed problem.
- AgPest
- A free tool to assist farmers and agricultural professionals in decision-making regarding weed and pest identification, biology, impact and management.
 New Zealand Weeds Key
- An interactive identification key to the weeds of New Zealand. Developed at Landcare Research.
New
Zealand Plant Conservation Network naturalised plants
- Search for information on more than 2500 naturalised and weedy plants.
 New
Zealand Plant Protection Society
- Their main objective: "To pool and exchange information on the biology
of weeds, invertebrate and vertebrate pests, pathogens and beneficial organisms
and methods for modifying their effects."
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 Massey
University Weeds Database- A site providing information about New Zealand weeds and weed control.
It has a series of pages showing pictures of New Zealand weeds, notes on
identification and control. It also provides information on a university
paper entitled Controlling Weeds.
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