Important Plant Characteristics:
- Dormant plants resistant to -45°C
- Active young shoots resistant to -15°C
- Flowers resistant to -7°C
- Early harvest (mid-June to mid-July)
- Little evidence of pests and diseases
- Superior flavour, fruit size and fruit shape
- Superior yield
- Deemed as acceptable by U of S Japanese co-operators for
their market
- High in antioxidants and Vitamin C
- Naturally low shrub (1.5m to 2m) - should require
relatively low maintenance
- Fruit has relatively long harvest window
- Selections for U-Pick & garden and for Commericial
harvesting and processing
- Fruit easily harvested without stems (U of S manually
shakes the plant)
- ***Cloned varieties are not self pollinating
 Common
Names:
- Blue Honeysuckle
- Haskap
- Haskup
- "Honeyberries TM"
- Sweetberry Honeysuckle
- Edible Honeysuckle
- Swamp Fly Honeysuckle
Scientific Names:
Old Scientific Names:
- Lonicera edulis
- Lonicera villosa
Released Varieties (2007)
- Borealis
- Recommended as U-pick or garden variety
- Largest fruit size (sample average from U of S last
year 1.62 g)
- Short, flat, boxy fruit, wet scar, sweet-tart
flavour
- Average damage in trial mechanical processing
- Tundra
- Good for commercial harvesting and processing
- Resistant to damage yet still has a "melt in
the mouth" characteristic
- Large fruit size (sample average from U of S last
year 1.49 g)
- Long, flat, bullet oval fruit, dry scar, sweet-tangy
flavour
- Small amount of damage in trial processing
- 9-15
- Good for U-Pick or garden variety
- Large yield, firm skin, less bleeding
- Better for some end uses (dried or whole processed
berries, baking, etc.)
- 9-91
- Promising, very much like Tundra
- Large fruit, long flat bullet oval fruit shape,
sweet-tangy
Pollinators:
Note: The "9" series and Borealis & Tundra
are not good pollinators of each other. Another
compatible variety of blue honeysuckle is required to
pollinate Haskap, at a rate of 1 pollinator for every 10.
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