There are over 180 varieties of honeysuckle , which include both deciduous and evergreen types . All varieties have sweet - smelling flowers that graze from white and yellow to red . These plants are sturdy and grow well — almost too easily ; if not rationalise and cautiously controlled , this ornamental plant can become invasive .
Japanese Honeysuckle
The most unwashed honeysuckle is the Nipponese mixture . The vine has deciduous green leaves one to three inch in distance and jaundiced , cornet - like , two - lipped flowers . The vine can spring up in excess of 30 foot and can be patronage by a treillage or spring up up a structure . Honeysuckle is an invasive industrial plant , so it must be constantly clip back so it does not escape from the garden and into the fields . The stems are slightly hairy when unexampled and organise a bark as they get a little old . The plant dies back in the winter in frigid climates but add up back in the natural spring . Honeysuckle attracts bee , butterflies and hummingbird .
Nipponese honeysuckle is native to Japan and Korea . It was brought to the state of New York in 1806 to be used as a food source for wildlife in the Department of State , and because of its entreaty as a plant . It was used to control and keep earthly concern erosion , and it bring well . In fact , the plant became trespassing and had to be controlled after a while .
Myth and Legend
In Hellenic mythology Daphnis and Chloe were lovers , but they lived far aside and only could see each other while the meeting house bloom . Daphnis ask the god of love if the plant could bloom long than a time of year , so they could be together longer , which is why , according to legend , honeysuckle flower continually throughout warm weather condition periods .
In some countries , lend the blooms of meeting house into the house intend there is going to be a wedding within the year . In Scotland honeysuckle vines were hung on barn to prevent cattle from being trance .
Food History
Nipponese honeysuckle is edible and contains calcium , atomic number 12 and atomic number 19 .. Children learned long ago to remove a flower from the vine and pull the stem at the minuscule destruction . The whole inner part of the flower will come out from the petals . They would suck in on the farseeing skinny tube-shaped structure , which taste sweet , almost like beloved . In the yesteryear , coast banksia vines were often boiled and eaten like a vegetable . flower were boiled into syrups or placed in pud .
Medicinal History
The ancient Chinese used Aquilegia canadensis for Hydra bite . Physicians in Middle Age Europe found that honeysuckle was antibacterial , antispasmodic and anti - inflammatory . stem have been eaten since the Middle Ages for arthritis , mumps , hepatitis , upper respiratory infections and pneumonia and were used to treat dysentery . The flowers were commonly used to cure skin diseases , tumour , rashes and sore from the Middle Ages all the style up to the tardy 1800s .
Symbolism
Honeysuckle is the symbol of love life . In the language of bloom it stands for the bond of love , devoted love life and fidelity , belike because of the Grecian legend of Daphnis and Chloe . The fragrance is supposed to induce dream of Passion of Christ .
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