Please post this on the "Name that plant!" forum on this site so the experts will see it. It's a honeysuckle (lonicera) but there are several lonicera species. A couple of them are highly invasive so it's important to get an accurate ID. Thanks!

Agree that is definitely a non-native Honeysuckle, and it is probably Lonicera morrowii.

Here's a site with some information about this species: https://www.mtu.edu/kisma/terrestrial-invasive-species/invasive-honeysuckle/

Thanks, I'll check it out. The only honeysuckles I know are the ones that grow on fences around farmers fields. When I was a kid we pulled off the base of the flower to get a drop of nectar. Good tip on the Name That Plant forum. It has been awhile so I didn't know that was added.

According to the link it may be native since the stems are not hollow. I know this because I moved here from the Philippines this past December. I was so excited to see snow again I built a big old snowman and I cut the arms from the honeysuckle bush. I still have those branches and I just checked them, not hollow.

It is indeed Tartarian Bush honeysuckle, highly invasive and it's all along the roadsides and in the woods. A dreadful non native.

I live in an adjoining county to you and have been watching it advance for years.

That is really surprising to me learning that this is a honeysuckle. Growing up in Delaware honeysuckles were vines growing on wire fences. I looked up Tartarian honeysuckle and I see Walmart is selling the plants for $3.

I was actually born in WV but my Dad moved us to Delaware when I was in 2nd grade. Mom didn't want her sons to be coal miners like my Dad. I finally made it back, 60 some years later, and I'm only 17 miles from the little farm we had in Leivasy, Nicholas County. Thanks

There are bush honeysuckles and vine honeysuckles. if you want to replace with a true native and ecologically valuable plant i would suggest coral honeysuckle (lonicera sempervirens)

But bear in mind that L sempervirens is a vine, not a shrub, so it would need support.

Some of these around my lot in west MD, and they are invasive, but here they get a disease that kills them after a decade or so.

So what is the recommendation? This was likely planted and cultivated by a previous owner judging by the location at the corner of the house where a shrub is typically planted.

It is also incredibly ugly in the winter, and not terribly attractive in the summer.

Beware, it eats saw blades.

No need to coddle this one. In fact, if you like it A LOT, there are probably legion that you can go visit anywhere in the neighborhood, the region - the whole of the northeastern/midwestern biome. Please don't preserve yet another source for infection in a home landscape.

I will argue quite strongly that this plant was NOT planted and cultivated by anyone. Judging by the location, a bird pooped out seed after eating this species' fruit somewhere else, and the resultant sprout grew and eventually overcame whatever plant may have been there previously. This is exactly what exotic invasive species do. Having pleasant enough flowers and fruit meant it was kept - if previous owners cared at all - and that it didn't die was suitable.

I hope I never become that narrow in my world view when it comes to plants...

I live on the edge of a forest and take daily nature walks. This is the only one I've seen.

If you just moved here from the Phillipines last December, either you cover some serious ground - or there are places you haven't had the pleasure of visiting yet.

I suspect that you will find fewer of these in a closed canopy forest than you will in the fencelines between residential properties, or fencerows of agricultural properties. Many people who aren't interested in sophisticated screening keep big ol' Asian Honeysuckles because they provide privacy. No matter that could be accomplished with almost every Viburnum, shrubby dogwood, and host of other native or benign exotic shrub: they are simply happy that they can't see their neighbor, and the neighbors can't see them.

I won't belabor this issue further, unless you want me to. I just hope that there aren't others in your lovely part of WV that care little about invasiveness, or someday the daily nature walks will not be nearly as enjoyable.

The responsible way to keep the plant is to pick off all berries, bag them up and send them to the landfill. Repeat annually.

I have a small backhoe and can rip it out of the ground, but I don't know what is the best way to dispose of it.

It has been growing at the corner of the house for several years. Here is a google maps image from July, 2021 which is 2 1/2 years before I bought the house. Looks to me like the previous owner was into landscaping. The shrubbery under the bay window is gone but the honeysuckle is there like it is part of her landscaping.

hi David, did you develop a fondness for balut in P.I.? Tell us how you eat them.

I had balut one time and that was on my 2nd trip in 2007. We were in Manila for the visa and we were walking the bay walk which was just across the street from our hotel. It was night time so I couldn't see it clearly but I swear it had feathers.. Her cousin Reden shelled it and removed the white parts. It did actually taste very good. Our home is in the Visayas, on Biliran Island and I haven't seen balut sold there, but I'm sure you can find it.

My wife is still at our Philippine house. She is the one with the green thumb. The edible plants we grow include Indian Mango, Yellow Mango, Jackfruit, Pineapple, Dwarf Coconut, Guyabano (soursop), Rambutan, Guava, Papaya, Banana, Kaimito (Star Apple), Siling Labuyo peppers (very spicy), Moringa trees and Lemongrass. Here is a video of my wife showing off her plants taken 2 days ago. If it doesn't start at the beginning just drag the progress bar to the left. Thank you!

https://youtu.be/H1Jdj4fVtNc