Plant · P-454

Honeyberry

Lonicera caerulea

Honeyberry, also called haskap, is a deciduous shrub of cold bogs and wet meadows across the far north, grown for its blue fruit. The berries taste milder than most edible honeysuckles, are high in antioxidants and vitamin C, and get eaten fresh or made into jams, jellies and drinks. It needs two different varieties planted together to set any fruit at all, since it isn't self-fertile. Its cold tolerance is extraordinary, but it is a genuinely cold-climate plant that struggles wherever summers run warm.