At Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum,
Lonicera Standishii and
Lonicera fragrantissima grow right next to each other. Both bear highly sweet white flowers in winter, that give rise to red edible berries by April or May. No
Lonicera berries are poisinous, but nearly all are too bitter to eat. These red ones are mildly sweet, but the shrubs do make produce
enough to be worth growing on that account. The most remarkable thing is the season of edibility --one does not think of April as a month in which ripe berries exist.
Lonicera flowers are often, if not usually, sweet with nectar, hence the name "honeysuckle." You can sip their nectar. But if a hummingbird or insects have beat you to it, the flower may be "dry." And the flowers that I have chewed, were not gratifying.
Arthur Lee Jacobson