Perfoliate Honeysuckle
Lonicera caprifolium L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 7.0 m
- wide
- 6.0 m
Caprifoliaceae
Also called Italian Honeysuckle, Italian woodbine, Italian Woodbine
Formerly Caprifolium atropurpureum, Caprifolium germanicum, Caprifolium hortense, Caprifolium italicum, and 10 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- LianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & SE. Europe to CaucasusKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 7.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 8–8 m; Plants For A Future 6–6 m
- Spread
- 6.0 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Flowers
- Cream, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: light, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- Caprifoglio comune, Italian woodbine, Այծացախակեռաս
- German
- Gartengeißblatt, Echtes Geißblatt, Wohlriechendes Geißblatt
- French
- Chèvrefeuille des jardins, chèvrefeuille des Jardins
- Spanish
- Madreselva, Madreselva de los Jardines
- Czech
- zimolez kozí list, zimolez zahradní
- Swedish
- Kaprifol, äkta kaprifol
- Estonian
- lõhnav kuslapuu, Lõhnav kuslapuu
- Norwegian Bokmål
- kaprifol, Kaprifol
- Russian
- Жимолость каприфоль, Жимолость козья, Жимолость душистая
- Danish
- Ægte kaprifolie
- Finnish
- tuoksuköynnöskuusama
- Lithuanian
- Apskritalapis sausmedis
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lonicera caprifolium (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.