Fly Honeysuckle
Lonicera xylosteum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.2 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Caprifoliaceae
Also called European fly honeysuckle, Dwarf honeysuckle, Fly honeysuckle
Formerly Caprifolium dumetorum, Caprifolium xylosteum, Chamaecerasus dumetorum, Chamaecerasus xylosteum, and 7 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
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to C. Siberia and NE. TürkiyeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Height
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Rote Heckenkirsche
- root
- LONXYL
- Finnish
- lehtokuusama
- Russian
- Жимолость настоящая, Жимолость лесная
- Italian
- Caprifoglio peloso
- French
- Chèvrefeuille des haies, Camérisier des haies, Chèvrefeuille à balais
- Czech
- zimolez obecný, zimolez obecný, zimolez pýřitý
- Swedish
- Skogstry
- Danish
- Dunet gedeblad
- Estonian
- harilik kuslapuu
- Dutch
- Rode kamperfoelie, rode kamperfoelie
- Norwegian Bokmål
- leddved
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
- Royal Horticultural Society, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Lonicera xylosteum (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.