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Cape honeysuckle is a sprawling, rampant, sometimes vine-like, shrub with evergreen, opposite, pinnately compound leaves about 6 in (15.2 cm) long. The 5-7 diamond-shaped leaflets are toothed and about 2 in (5.1 cm) long. Throughout fall and winter Cape honeysuckle produces clusters of brilliant red-orange to scarlet tubular flowers, each about 2 in (5.1 cm) long. If pruned to maintain as a shrub, it can reach 10 ft (3.1 m) or more in height and half as wide. If left to scramble, Cape honeysuckle can cover 25 ft (7.6 m) or more. The cultivar, 'Apricot' is smaller and more compact with orange flowers. 'Aurea' has yellow flowers.
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Cape honeysuckle can be used as a climbing vine (it needs tying) or barrier hedge/screen, trained as a specimen shrub, or used as a ground cover on steep slopes or rocky banks. It is sometimes trained as an espalier. It is especially attractive cascading over walls or planters. It can be trained to a garden arch. Cape honeysuckle is tolerant of salt spray and accepts acidic to alkaline soils.
Features Steve Christman 10/30/99; updated 10/26/03, 5/11/04
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