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My favourite honey is from ivy (hedera helix and/or hedera hibernica) . I heard one customer asking another "Do you get the citrus overtones?"
Chris
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Sent from AOL Email App for Android Friday, 10 July 2020, 00:35pm +01:00 from Alex Jackson [log in to unmask] :
>At one of my apiaries we're surrounded by some large groves of Black
>Gum, *Nyssa
>sylvatica*.
>
>Usually, the weather is not so great and the bees mix in the Black Gum
>honey with the rest of the varieties without producing a monofloral crop.
>This year we had nearly perfect weather and every colony put on at least a
>super of honey.
>
>While I find it somewhat hard to believe, the monofloral honey from the
>Black Gum bloom is quite bitter, almost tastes like cough medicine. I find
>it odd, because the Black Gum is closely related to the Tupelo, which is
>revered for its honey.
>
>It's certainly some of the most bizarre tasting honey I've ever discovered,
>and while not unpalatable, it's certainly not what I was expecting.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
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