A name for various plants of a climbing habit; in early use, convolvulus and ivy The common honeysuckle, Lonicera Periclymenum, a climbing shrub with pale yellow fragrant flowers See notes on herbs
Any of many species of vines belonging to various flowering-plant families, especially the Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia, family Vitaceae) of North America and the Eurasian woodbine honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum, family Caprifoliaceae). The Virginia creeper, also called American ivy, attaches to walls, fences, and large tree trunks by means of disk-tipped tendrils. Its leaves display spectacular fall colour from yellow to red-purple. Woodbine honeysuckle has grayish green leaves and fragrant, yellowish white flowers
The honeysuckle or beewort; or perhaps the convolvulus Where the bee Strays diligent, and with extracted balm Of fragrant woodbine loads his little thigh Phillips Shakespeare says- So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist Midsummer Night's Dream, iv 1 Gone where the woodbine twineth To the pawnbroker's, up the spout, where, in Quebec, on cottage walls the woodbine may be seen twining A correspondent of Quebec supplied this