General Description | It is a twinning climber with green leaves and whorled flowers, which are salmon in colour. |
ID Characteristic | The flowers are two-lipped with five small spread lobes. The oval leaves have a bluish underside and green topside. The flowers are of a salmon/peach colour. |
Shape | This cultivar can spread as far as the structure it is climbing or attached to. It can also be trained as a groundcover. Shapes can vary depending on training method employed. |
Landscape | This vine is beautiful and has a wonderful flower to leaf combination. Can be trained fairly easily and is extremely colourful. This can also be trained as a groundcover but no matter how it is grown it will attract many birds including hummingbirds. |
Propagation | Cuttings may be taken from ripe wood in autumn and rooted under mist in well drained media. The plant is considered “ripe” when the berries are completely formed. |
Cultivation | Requires well-drained soil. When growing, it can be watered freely. It prefers filtered light.It should only be pruned immediately after flowering. |
Pests | This plant has multiple pest and disease problems, however the most prominent are aphids, leaf roller and powdery mildew. |
Habitat | Horticultural origin. |
Bark/Stem Description | Its bark is light grey with long, think paper-like plates. |
Flower/Leaf Bud Description | Small hard, smooth bud with no hairs. |
Leaf Description | The leaves have bluish undersides, green topsides, and are saucer like in size and shape. They are opposite on the stem. |
Flower Description | The flowers are salmon to orange in colour and whorl at the shoot tips. The flowers have are yellow internally and they are lobed and two-lipped. |
Fruit Description | The fruit, when ripe, are small red berries, orbicular, and about 5 mm across. |
Colour Description | Lonicera Sempervirens 'Major Wheeler' has a leaf which is green on the topside and bluish on the underside. The flowers are salmon to orange in colour. |