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To: Bitsy

I’m wondering the same thing. I have a ton of it on my property here in MO. Is this Honeysuckle the same as the one in the article?

I read that the red berries from honeysuckle here in MO are poisonous.


19 posted on 10/24/2014 8:03:23 AM PDT by roofgoat
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To: roofgoat

I read that the red berries from honeysuckle here in MO are poisonous.

I don’t remember the red berries from honeysuckle. Did you mean holly? Anyway, Kittnmom, another poster, said they have a horticulturalist in the family. Let’s see what she has to say.


26 posted on 10/24/2014 8:31:37 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: roofgoat

It’s the same stuff. Lonicera japonica was brought to the US in the 1800s from Japan.


34 posted on 10/24/2014 9:31:52 AM PDT by agatheringstorm
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To: roofgoat

Red berried honeysuckles do have poisonous berries, but they taste so aweful there’s not much chance of being poisoned by them.

Many years ago I learned an important lesson on plant identification that way :)


63 posted on 10/24/2014 10:02:39 PM PDT by Ellendra (Poor is a state of money. Poverty is a state of mind.)
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