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Bell‘s Honeysuckle (Showy Fly Honeysuckle) (Lonicera x bella): Images

Date	Location	Notes	Images
August 10, 2010	Southeastern, New Hampshire	[Update 5/31/2011] This has many of the characteristics of Morrow’s Honeysuckle (Lonicera x-bella) because the leaves and stem are hairy as well as there being hairs inside the corolla of the flower, but the bracteoles (small bracts) are shorter than 1/2 the length of the ovaries (signifying that it is partially Bell’s Honeysuckle). See images from 5/31/2011 below. More information on differentiating Honeysuckles can be found at http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/ccb/publications/publication-2.html.

Date	Location	Notes	Images
July 22, 2011	Southeastern, New Hampshire	This was even more difficult to recognize without the flowers. It was no more than 4 feet high and has pairs of berries and pairs of opposite leaves. At first I misidentified it as American Fly Honeysuckle (Lonicera x-bella), butI went back later when I found out that the non-native honeysuckles have young twigs with hollow pith. You can see that in the last two pictures below. Non-native honeysuckles includes Bell’s Honeysuckle (Lonicera x bella), Morrow’s Honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii, Tatarian Honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica), Dwarf Honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum), Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) and Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica).