{"id":15348,"date":"2023-08-10T06:40:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/kasvit\/lonicera_caerulea_blue_honeysuckle\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:49:29","slug":"loniceracaerulea","status":"publish","type":"kasvit","link":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/plants\/loniceracaerulea\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonicera caerulea &#8211; blue honeysuckle"},"content":{"rendered":"<article role=\"article\" class=\"node node-type-plant node-view-mode-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/lonicera_caerulea_siemen_pietari_jreinikainen.jpg\" alt=\"lonicera_caerulea_siemen_pietari_jreinikainen.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In Finland blue honeysuckle grows naturally only in Kuusamo, close to the Arctic Circle, where it is a protected endangered species. It is widely used in gardens, being both extremely hardy and undemanding; occasionally it is found as an escapee.<\/p>\n<p>Blue honeysuckle forms a low bush as wide as it is high, with blue-green leaves. The flowers, appearing in May, are yellowish. After Midsummer the blue berries ripen, bitter-tasting and slightly poisonous due to the saponins they contain.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an edible variety (<em>L<\/em>. <em>caerulea <\/em>var. <em>edulis<\/em>) of blue honeysuckle, which unfortunately cannot be distinguished in appearance from the poisonous species. In Russia this edible variety has been selected and bred for a long time. The bushes resulting from this work produce sweet berries about 2-3cms long which taste something like blueberries, bilberries or cranberries.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"keywords\">\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ryhmittely\">Lehtipuut ja -pensaat<\/li>\n<li class=\"plants\"><a href=\"\" hreflang=\"und\">Lonicera<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"plants\"><a href=\"\" hreflang=\"und\">Lonicera caerulea<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7521,"template":"","alueet":[],"kasvilajit":[1095,1281],"class_list":["post-15348","kasvit","type-kasvit","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kasvilajit-deciduous_trees_and_shrubs","kasvilajit-lonicera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvit\/15348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kasvit"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"alueet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alueet?post=15348"},{"taxonomy":"kasvilajit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvilajit?post=15348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}