# Is this a honeysuckle? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 15, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796 "2010-07-15T16:55:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/1 "2010-07-15T16:55:05Z")
[Too much flash](http://www.flickr.com/photos/kate-and-shay/4794168959/in/set-72157624495833186/) [No flash](http://www.flickr.com/photos/kate-and-shay/4794803006/in/set-72157624495833186) [Berries](http://www.flickr.com/photos/kate-and-shay/4794803392/in/set-72157624495833186) The two yellow thingies with the green tips (apologies for the lack of proper botanical lingo, it has been a few years since undergrad botany, and I haven’t dissected a flower yet) seem pretty distinctive and I have yet to find any image relating to "honeysuckle that looks similar online. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/2 "2010-07-15T23:54:07Z")
Not ringing any bells, eh? As you can see from the comments, honeysuckle is the only guess I have to go on so far. The berries look similar to some varieties, but not the flowers as far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/3 "2010-07-15T23:58:41Z")
Doesn’t look like honeysuckle to me, but I haven’t paid much attention to it in over 30 years. As a kid, I’d sometimes pick the flowers, then pull the stem part out of the bottom to lick the nectar. I suppose you shouldn’t oughta try that, in case that isn’t honeysuckle, and might kill ya. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/4 "2010-07-16T00:42:42Z")
Pfft. We did that to any kind of pointy-bottomed flower, and we’re still alive! Maybe not SANE, but alive… That doesn’t look like honeysuckle at all to me, but I have zero clue what it might be, and worse, I can’t imagine where to look to find out. That annoys me more than anything; big fat interwebs and I’m lacking in ideas where to hunt for it. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/5 "2010-07-16T00:43:06Z")
Yeah that sounds like the variety I’m most familiar with. Something like [this](http://www.backyard-birds.net/articles/pictures/honeysuckle.jpg). I loved showing my childhood friends how to tug the stamen out carefully for maximum nectar goodness. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/6 "2010-07-16T00:51:45Z")
[This](http://www.howtogrow.co.uk/images/photos/plants/honeysuckle-berry2.jpg) was the berry picture that seems similar enough to keep it as possibility. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/7 "2010-07-16T01:00:31Z")
> [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](#): > > Yeah that sounds like the variety I’m most familiar with. Something like [this](http://www.backyard-birds.net/articles/pictures/honeysuckle.jpg). I loved showing my childhood friends how to tug the stamen out carefully for maximum nectar goodness. Yep, that’s honeysuckle. The one I know well. Go ahead and wiki it. There’s a milliom of 'em. 🙂 Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/8 "2010-07-16T01:18:23Z")
> [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](#): > > Yeah that sounds like the variety I’m most familiar with. Something like [this](http://www.backyard-birds.net/articles/pictures/honeysuckle.jpg). I loved showing my childhood friends how to tug the stamen out carefully for maximum nectar goodness. Yup. That’s the stuff I know as honeysuckle. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/9 "2010-07-16T01:27:40Z")
And it is wikipedia ftw! I clicked a couple in the overwhelming list and was just curious about the bearberry variety, and _magical chimes_ there it was, _Lonicera involucrata_. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/10 "2010-07-16T02:37:01Z")
Wooties, question asked and answered! I love this place \<3 It’s like browsing through an encyclopedia, though not in alphabetical order. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-honeysuckle/546796/11 "2010-07-16T02:46:03Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Wooties, question asked and answered! > > I love this place \<3 > > It’s like browsing through an encyclopedia, though not in alphabetical order. 😃 you browse in alphabetical order? Holy crap, man!