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295/365 Sweet Honeysuckle

22 Tuesday Oct 2019

Posted by sconzani in autumn, flowers, nature, wildflowers

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British wildflowers, flowering Honeysuckle, Honeysuckle, Honeysuckle scent, Woodbine

I was surprised, but delighted to find this Honeysuckle plant still in flower today.

191022 honeysuckle

Did you know its scent, which is strongest at night, can be detected by pollinating moths a quarter of a mile away (Flora Britannica)? Did you know its vernacular name is woodbine (I know at least one of you did) and the plant is mentioned in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms ..
So doth the woodbine, the sweet honeysuckle

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