Today was a beautiful overcast spring day with a temperature of 68 degrees, We had a mixture of weather this past week between thunderstorms and snow flurries then respectively warm and cold temperatures. The amur honeysukle (Lonicera maackii) does not seem to be affected by the weather because I did not see any evidence of wilting. I noticed that all the plants have finally stopped in increasing their leaf size and the energy is now being used for the flower buds. There were more than 10,000 flower buds on each plant that I think will be ready to burst soon. In the photos below show the plant is very green and the flower buds are still growing before they burst open. All photos by: Karissa Aly
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Today at 12:40pm, the temperature was 68°F and there was a dark overcast sky. There were very light, intermittent sprinkles of rain along with wind blowing at 5mph. Each of the 4 amur honeysuckles (Lonicera maackii ) that were observed displayed very similar phenophase signs. They are each showing <25% increasing leave size, which is less than previous observations. The snow damaged leaves seem to be surviving with brown tips. Canopy coverage has reached the higher side of the 50-74% range. This isn’t a surprise, especially since we have recently experienced multiple days of sunshine and temperatures reaching almost 80°F. The major phenophase observed today is an emergence of about 101-1,000 flower buds.
(Each photo was taken by observer Travis Mitchell) On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 the weather was sunny and around 40° F with extreme wind of up to 23 mph. The Amur honeysuckles still had some breaking buds on their branches. Because the shrubs still have some breaking buds, there is also still around 25-49% increasing leaf size present. However, they all had a 50-74% full canopy of leaves. Many of the leaves were still slightly damaged from last week heavy snow. On 3/29/18 at around 9:30am, an observation on the Amur honeysuckle was done by Jared Crotts. After a previous few weeks of snow and cold variations in temperature, The plants have began to flourish in full force. The plants are beginning to change from breaking bud and becoming leaves entirely. There we notes of dead leaves and and the weather was in the forties majority of the week. Weather was partly cloudy and temperature was 64 degrees and maxed at 78 degrees. The plants are beginning to gain canopy coverage in the range of 50- 74 percent. Increasing leaf size of transition from increasing to leaves. |
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