Honeysuckle family : CAPRIFOLIACEAE (ASTERIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Abelia grandiflora Glossy Abelia Sydney, September 2006	Centranthus ruber Red Valerian Burwood, Sydney, October 2007	Lonicera hildebrandiana Giant Burmese Honeysuckle Wyee, November 2007	Lonicera periclymenum Honeysuckle Sydney, October 2006
Lonicera sempervirens Coral Honeysuckle Wyee, April 2007	Sambucus nigra Elderberry Sydney, August 2006	Viburnum x burkwoodii Burkwood Viburnum Wyee, September 2008	Viburnum odoratissimum Sweet Viburnum Sydney, October 2008
Viburnum opulus Guelder Rose Wyee, October 2006	Viburnum tinus Laurustinus Wyee, September 2007	Valeriana officinalis White Valerian Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, December 2009	Weigela florida Old fashioned weigela Wyee, January 2007

A number of Moth species in Australia have larvae that feed on plants in CAPRIFOLIACEAE, including:

Merophyas divulsana	Cryptoptila immersana	Psilogramma casuarinae

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 1 July 2022)