Japanese Honeysuckle

Plant: Semi-evergreen woody vine with opposite leaves, high climbing and trailing, to 80 ft (30 m) long, often forming arbors throughout forest canopies and/or ground cover under canopies, from long woody rhizomes that sprout frequently.

Stem: Slender becoming stout, round in cross-section, brown and hairy becoming tan barked, having fissures and sloughing with age, opposite branched, rooting at low nodes.

Leaves: Opposite, mostly semi-evergreen or evergreen, ovate to elliptic to oblong, 1.6-2.6 in (4-6.5 cm) long and 0.8-1.5 in (2-3.8 cm) wide, base rounded, tips blunt-pointed to rounded, margins entire with fine hairs but often lobed in the spring, smooth to rough hairy both surfaces.

Flowers: Apr-Jun. Axillary pairs on a bracted stalk, fragrant, white (or pink) and pale yellow, 0.8-1.2 in (2-3 cm) long, thin tubular flaring to 5 lobes in 2 lips (upper lip 4-lobed and lower lip 1-lobed), longest lobes about equaling tube, 5 stamens and 1 pistil projecting outward becoming curved

Fruit and seeds: Aug-Mar. Berry black, glossy, nearly spherical, 0.1 in (5-6 mm) wide, stalks 0.4-1.2 in (1-3 cm) long with persistent sepals, seeds several.