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Lonicera maackii, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Lonicera maackii

Amur honeysuckle · also Maack's honeysuckle

22
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
3
cities
7.8 in
median trunk (20 cm, 22 measured)
16 yr
median age (68% have a planting date)

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Lonicera maackii, also known as Amur honeysuckle, is a shrub or tree native to temperate eastern Asia. It is a significant invasive species in the woodlands of the eastern United States. This species is listed as endangered in Japan.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Boston · United States
    1115 yr16 in
  2. Paris · France
    8—3.5 in
  3. Helsinki · Finland
    3—2.0 in

Traits

Mature height
65 ft
Canopy spread
40 ft

Trunk diameters across every city: median 7.8 in, mean 9.7 in, 90th percentile 16 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
  • Central Korean deciduous forests
  • Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
  • Southern Korea evergreen forests

Montane Grasslands & Shrublands

  • Southeast Tibet shrublands and meadows

Other Lonicera in the catalogue

4 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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