Lonicera interrupta - Chaparral honeysuckle

Chaparral honeysuckle (Lonicera interrupta) is a sprawling, deciduous vining shrub of California chaparral and oak woodland, tolerant of full sun to shade, with an edible but bitter berry.¹ It grows 0.7-2 m tall and 0.8-1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Full shade¹

Outputs

• Human food¹

Type

• Lonicera spp. - Honeysuckle
• Shrub
• Vine
• Deciduous

Functions

• Flammable²
• Pollination¹
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.7-2
Diameter (m)	0.8-1

Footnotes

1. Lonicera interrupta, Chaparral Honeysuckle | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 10 seconds ↩