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Honeysuckle-different foliage from the bottom of the plant?

sfhellwig
13 years ago

I have a Hall's Honeysuckle I planted a little over a year ago. It was a end of season plant that did very well and had some blooms last year. As it has awoken and started growing, it is sending out shoots from it's entire stem, all the way to the ground. I noticed on the lower shoots that the leaves look different. Very lobed on the margin, like a chinkapin oak. Is this just a juvenile trait? Sign of vigorous growth? I know on grafted plants you can't let shoots below the graft grow or they will mismatch/rob vigor. But honeysuckle would only be grafted onto itself to bloom earlier? This is a reliable honeysuckle that shouldn't be grafted onto different stock should it? I plan on cutting some of them off anyway as there are A LOT but thought I would figure out the mystery first.

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