From: "Greg Kovacs" " "Honey Plants of North America" and it reads
that --there are 31
> species of hypericum and they are necterless. They do produce pollen and
> bees gather this pollen in the morning. It looks like "hypericum honey"
> is just a scam."

Eva Crane , Comprehensive Survey of Honey, 1975 (608 page book - our best
ref in UK) lists only phacelia tanacetifolia Bentham , but puts it in
categories 5 & 6,    5=201 to 500 kilograms of honey per hectare, 6 = over
500 (highest category).   Says it is an annual, native to California,
introduced to UK in 832, rapid gowth and high nectar yield, sown for honey
crop in Russia and neighboring countries, amber honey , flows freely,
granualates quickly.

Have those plant hybridisers being doing their worst with the current
varieties?

Perhaps we should buy Russian seed?

Robin Dartington

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