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Re: Sunflowers and pollen
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>Looking at the different seed catalogs I've noticed that there are multitudes of varieties of sunflowers available.  However, I think I remember mention being made that some varieties do NOT provide viable pollen for use by our bees.

They certainly have low protein pollen.

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01201282/document

But they do give an interesting yellow coloured honey, both liquid and 
crystallised.

Geoff Manning

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