Honeysuckle as a fire starter.

Honeysuckle,also know as woodbine as a fire starter..

An old fella was telling me about how good honeysuckle bark is as a fire lighting tinder so today i gave it a try for the first time.

I cut some old dead honeysuckle and stripped the bark off,then broke up small twigs and then the larger ones including the debarked twigs.

I lit the bark with my ferro rod and was surprised how easy it took,two strikes and it was alight.

I just added the small twigs and the the larger ones and it burned real well.

So thanks to that old fella today ive found a new tinder for fire-lighting.













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All the summer days I spent suckling the sweetness..... never thought/knew of it making good tinder.

 

Thats a great discovery.
Sir Raymondo did one using wild grape vine, looks very similar but a bit thinner.

 

I know where theres some wild grape vine growing and will have to try it out.

 

@tacmotsun. Nice thread revival. I had no idea honesuckle would be a good firestarter