General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 2 -45.6 °C (-50 °F) to -42.8 °C (-45°F)
Plant Height: 4 to 6 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Other: Small rectangular bluish berries
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Resistances: Deer Resistant

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Common names
  • Haskap
  • Bearberry Honeysuckle
  • Japanese Blue Honeysuckle
  • Japanese Edible Honeysuckle
  • Japanese Honeyberry
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Lonicera caerulea subsp. edulis
  • Synonym: Lonicera caerulea var. kamtschatica
  • Synonym: Lonicera caerulea var. edulis
  • Synonym: Lonicera emphyllocalyx
  • Synonym: Lonicera caerulea subsp. kamtschatica

Photo Gallery
Location: Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2007-07-01
Blue Honeysuckle (Lonicera edulis subsp. edulis).
Location: Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2006-05-21
Blue Honeysuckle (Lonicera edulis subsp. edulis).
Location: Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2007-07-01
Blue Honeysuckle (Lonicera edulis subsp. edulis).
Location: Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2007-07-01
Blue Honeysuckle (Lonicera edulis subsp. edulis).
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2019-05-25
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2016-04-01
Cultivar Berry Blue.
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-05-10
Last year a hummingbird moth was laying eggs on the leaves
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