Honeyvine Milkweed Seeds. Honeyvine milkweed this plant and synonym italicized and indented above can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below this plant may be known by one or more common names in different places and some are listed above. Herbaceous vine reaching lengths of 10 ft.
The small fragrant flowers occur in clusters and are followed by large pod like fruits that are filled with hairy seeds typical of the milkweed family. It had milkweed like seed pods but they were dangling from a vine climbing high into a tree. Honeyvine is in the milkweed family and is native to much of the eastern u s.
Honeyvine milkweed is a perennial vine that can grow 12 feet or more in a season and as much as 3 feet in a week.
Although the name implies a secretion of milky sap as in other milkweed species asclepias spp this does not occur in the leaves or stems of honeyvine milkweed. Thankfully for me the vine was also covered with oleander aphids aphis nerii. Leaves are heart shaped entire margins no hairs and arranged. However small infestations should be treated with a 2 v v roundup ultra solution before this hard to control perennial weed spreads further.