<"it has a beautiful ruby tint to it, and a flavor slightly reminiscent of cherries or champagne grapes." As far as I know, there are no flowers that give red honey> ----- Hello, The description seems to fit -since it has not been suggested by previous posts, I will propose that it is from nectar collected from the Tulip Tree which is abundant in Georgia mountains. If the honey darkens over the following weeks, I would suspect Tulip. Due to the tenancy for Tulip Popular honey to darken, and its bloom time which sometimes extends past the time Locust is typically harvested. I have seen this floral source often miss-identified as fall honey, summer honey etc. If it was more recently harvested, I might suspect perhaps Mountain Sumac, -known to produce surplus in Georgia. I also like Petes suggestion of Japanese Knot-weed. I would suspect it would had to have been harvested very recently to be from this source. But being, as you mentioned from the 'mountains of Georgia', -for it to be from the source of knot-weed, the apiaries would need to be positioned in the vicinity of the lowlands, or near farmland and creek-sides which knot-weed typically grows in quantities sufficient to produce a surpluss. Here in SW PA during the extreme nectar dearth several years ago, which according a PA Inspectors, was typically miss diagnosed as CCD in my area. I observed that nectar from the blooming knotweed was sustaining several of my top colonies from starvation. Knot-weed, which appeared to be of a darker, -and reddish color was placed very close to the broodnest, -at the leading edge, in sufficient quantities to sustain brood rearing, and was the ONLY source which I observed being collected till Goldenrod began to produce in mid to late August. Best Wishes Joe Waggle http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles/ *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm