On February 22, 2018 the weather was an average of 58 degrees for the week with very minimum precipitation. On observation day the temperature was 70 degrees with a clear blue sky. Today the amur honeysuckle was showing full leaf out on some limbs of the plant while on others there was still bursting buds. All of the amur honeysuckles being observed are all relatively expressing the same phenophases with bursting buds about 1,001 to 10,000; young leaves about 101 to 1,000; less than 5% canopy growth; and less than 25% of increasing leaf size. Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) with full leaf out on 2/22/18 (photo taken by Karissa Aly).
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At 2:45pm on February 18th, 2018, observer Travis Mitchell went out to the Radford University Bike Path to analyze the phenophase progression of the 4 amur honeysuckle (Lonicera mackii) plants that our group tagged last week. The weather at the time was 58°F, accompanied by 0% precipitation and clear, blue skies. The major phenophase changes observed were with honeysuckle #2 & #3. These two plants had breaking leaf buds, compared to the dormant buds observed the prior week. For honeysuckles #1 & #4, they had dormant buds which were the same as last week. On February 8, 2018, our group selected 3 Amur Honeysuckle shrubs to observe for the rest of the semester along a strip of riparian habitat on the Radford Bike Path in Radford, VA. The temperature was 42° F and it was quite sunny. We placed a identification tag and a bright pink ribbon to each of our honeysuckle shrubs to ensure that we'd be able to locate and identify them again. It was still winter for all 3 of our Amur Honeysuckles because there were zero broken buds on all of them. They also did not have any flower buds present at all. |
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