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Japanese honeysuckle, Jasmine or...? PNW zone 8

Hutchae84 Zone 8b/PNW

5 years ago

Is this Japanese honeysuckle or something else? flowers where white and very fragrant when in bloom but I can't remember exactly what they looked like besides being small.

If Japanese honeysuckle, is it considered invasive in my area? Would you remove?

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
5 years ago
It is not honeysuckle. And Japanese honeysuckle is not invasive in this area. It doesn't look all that much like star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) either but it could be. Leaf detail looks more like Asian jasmine, Trachelospermum asiaticum. Are those recent photos? Was it fully evergreen through winter?
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
5 years ago
Mmmm. I was about to say it is clearly honeysuckle. It isn't Trachelospermum asiaticum by any stretch of the imagination.
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
5 years ago
Floral, clearly you are continuing to see things differently than I ;-) But other than the red stems it looks nothing like the Japanese honeysuckle I am familiar with ('Halliana'). And if the photos are at all recent, that seems doubtful as this vine is seldom fully evergreen here and after our most recent bout of cold weather, not at all this winter!

However you are correct with your ID's almost 100% of the time and I am at best hit or miss. So I defer to your judgement.
Hutchae84 Zone 8b/PNW
Original Author
5 years ago
photo was taken today. it is not fully evergreen, there where some leaves on it throughout the winter but it leafed out a lot more in the past month. during winter the underside was barren.
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
5 years ago
Sorry, Gal but to me that is absolutely honeysuckle. It's not invasive here and is seen a lot in gardens looking just like that.
Hutchae84 Zone 8b/PNW
Original Author
5 years ago
actually it's definitely not evergreen, I was able to zoom in on a picture of it from December, it was almost completely brown except for a few leaves on top.
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
5 years ago
Well, I agree that it is definitely not the jasmine!! Japanese honeysuckle is grown alot here as well - I've grown the Hall's myself (although not recently) - but I can't say I recall the foliage looking like that. But no other small, white flowering, fragrant vine comes to mind with a similar appearance so I am conceeding to the honeysuckle :-)
Hutchae84 Zone 8b/PNW
Original Author
5 years ago
ok thanks you two. good to know it is not invasive in our area, so I will leave it be.
dbarron
5 years ago
It does look like Japanese honeysuckle, though it may look a bit stouter than I'm used to. Obviously, the proof will be in the flowering and fragrance, which should be within the next month I'd think for you.

Considering how awful it is here, I shiver to look at it.
geoforce
5 years ago
Looks very much identical to the honeysuckle I pull out of my garden every year. Intensely invasive up here in the NE and bits will creep along undercover in the grass then pop up on any standing plant. Impossible to eradicate as birds carry seeds everywhere also.
Embothrium
5 years ago
Agree with Japanese honeysuckle. Not the bane out here in the summer dry west it is back east. In fact I've even planted it and had it die after a few years! (Timing would suggest the form I was sold was not particularly cold tolerant, otherwise I don't have much idea what the problem was).

Only time I have seen one growing on its own here was when it was situated just above lake level at the base of a south facing slope, where its special little spot would presumably be warm and moist all summer. And it didn't appear there was going to be much opportunity for it to form a significant infestation.

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