Grace
Oct 13 2009, 06:57 AM

Another honeysuckle. That's what I think it is.
Grace
Oct 13 2009, 09:03 AM
Well, in case I'm not, don't you go eatin it.
Warrior River
Oct 13 2009, 10:50 AM
That my friends is a Lonicera Japonica or Japanese Honeysuckle. The fruit is excellent for making jams etc. The flower is used as an natural anti and other things. It is considered an invasive plant. But highly edible. I like to take the flower and pull it off. At the base of the flower is a small nodule. Pull that and the center of the flower will pull out(the lil hair like things) and then place that end in your mouth and suck. Quite sweet.
I have five acres that I have been slowly adding wild edibles to. I have persimmons,chokecherry,half acre patch of blackberry,huckleberry,four varieties of crabapple,two pear,peach,hawthorsn,wild grapes/muscadines, three varieties of mulberry trees(looks like giant blackberries) and a host of others and I am adding all the time. I had a small patch of the Jap Honeysuckle but decided to eliminate it as it is hard to contain and I can find acres of it everywhere. As of last count I think I have around 40 or so wild fruit bearing type species. I had to go to making a small plaque to put in front of each small grouping to keep up with whats what lol
I remember as a boy walking down the road and harvesting these type things on the side of the road. nowadays the county and state bushhog and spray several feet off the sides of the roads and these things are harder to find.
Pops
Oct 13 2009, 06:39 PM
QUOTE (OHIOSTEVE @ Oct 13 2009, 01:11 AM)

if it's a tree (maybe a bush?) it's not Jap honeysuckle, jap honeysuckle is a twining woody vine and the fruits are black. could be any one of the invasive bush honeysuckles.