Twinberry

[Grogie]

I discovered this word a few months ago and remembered it now. It,s a shrub of western North America and a creeping woody vine of eastern North America.

[Apoclima]

Lonicera involucrata

Apo

[Grogie]

Apoclima. Many thanks for the Latin name.

[Brazilian dude]

Wow, that Latin name really rocks. Ooops, it's dendrology, not mineralogy here.

Brazilian dude

[gailr]

It's OK, dude. You are allowed to bark up the wrong tree every once in awhile. (We know you will not remain stumped for long.)
-gailr

[Stargzer]

Lonicera involucrata

Apo

So that's what kind of plant it is . . .

"Skeeters am a hummin' on the honeysuckle vine . . ."

[M. Henri Day]

As usual, an interesting link, courtesy of Apo ! I don't know how many of those who bothered to check it out noticed the next-to-last sentence :

The twigs and stems were employed medicinally for digestion problems and as a contraceptive.

There are those who think contraceptives and abortifacients are modern inventions, crafted by wicked atheists opposed to the missionary position and intent on preventing the fulfilment of the biblical imperative. Nothing could be further from the truth, as can easily be shown by a peep in any good book on traditional usages of plants. The real imperative at the time was that of maintaining the population within the bounds of sustainability. Now that we are going on our seventh thousand million, perhaps we need to learn from earlier generations....

Henri