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a flower that hands out free candy through its own stem like a backalley sugar dealer.
means A climbing or shrubby plant with fragrant tubular flowers whose nectar can be sipped from the base of the bloom.
from From Old English 'hunigsuce,' literally 'honey-suck' — 'hunig' (honey) plus a 'suck' element, naming the plant for the sweet nectar children would draw from its flowers. The modern '-suckle' is a later diminutive twist on that older 'suck,' so the name has always pointed straight at the act of sipping its sugar.
- sweet nectar
- Kids pull the stamen to taste a drop of sugar
- invasive streak
- Japanese honeysuckle smothers forests across the eastern US
- night shift
- Some bloom and pump perfume hardest after dark
- moth magnet
- Long tubes feed hawk moths with built-in straws
- name origin
- From honey plus sucan, Old English for to suck
lonicera japonica — japanese honeysuckle, invasive across north america and europe since the 1800s
lonicera periclymenum — european woodbine honeysuckle, native to uk and used in traditional hedgerows
diervilla lonicera — bush honeysuckle of eastern north america, flowers in june-july