Winter honeysuckle
Lonicera fragrantissima Lindl. & Paxton
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Caprifoliaceae
Also called Standish's Honeysuckle, Sweet breath of spring
Formerly Xylosteon fragrantissimum
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
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & S. ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1.5–2.5 m; Wikipedia 1–3 m
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- CreamRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS cream; Wikipedia cream, white
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- January jasmine
- Czech
- zimolez vonný, zimolez Standishův
- Estonian
- ülilõhnav kuslapuu, Standishi kuslapuu
- Japanese
- ツシマヒョウタンボク
- Chinese (China)
- 郁香忍冬, 苦糖果, 裤裆果
- Russian
- Жимолость Душистая
- French
- Chèvrefeuille d'hiver
- Chinese
- 鬱香忍冬, 大金银花, 郁香忍冬
- Swedish
- dofttry
- Bulgarian
- Ароматен нокът
- Slovak
- zemolez voňavý
- Polish
- wiciokrzew pachnący
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
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lonicera fragrantissima (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.