Yeah, I'm real skeptical about corn too. I'm familiar with the plant, Japanese
Bamboo. Lot's of it on Cape Cod where much of my family lives. I have been seeing
it around here, but it doesn't seem like there's enough of it. Bloom time is right
though. Color too.
Not Purple Loosestrife. I know that one.
 
Pollinator wrote:
 
> In a message dated 98-01-06 08:09:11 EST, Michael Palmer wrote:
>  >
>  >     Here in Vermont, we seem to have a new honey. Actually I've made
>  > some on both sides of lake Champlain. Let me start again. Here in the
>   > Champlain Valley we seem to have a new honey. Dark in color, and strong
>   > in taste. Reports of this "honey" have increasing in the last 2 or 3
>   > years. The biggest change in agriculture here has been the increase of
>   > corn acreage in the last 2 or 3 years. Hmmm... From corn??
>
>    Still real skeptical about the "corn."  Another possibility comes to mind.
>
>    An invasive weed, japanese bamboo is common in Pennsylvania and central New
> York, along the river flood plains, and I wonder if it has reached your area.
> It is not a bamboo really, though the stem is jointed.  It looks like a giant
> wild buckwheat, which is actually is. It blooms in August, and makes a dark,
> mellow, delicious honey, sort of a mild buckwheat.
>
>    Does it have a greenish tint when extracted?  Lousy taste? Purple
> loosestrife?
>
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