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Acacia
Honey
Acacia honey is a premier grade honey with very light
or semi-transparent color, deliciously sweet and crystal-clean
taste. Acacia honey has a special flavor and fragrance
from its floral source. |
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Buckwheat
Honey
Buckwheat honey is a pungent honey with molasses and
malty flavors and a lingering aftertaste. The honey
is dark purple, usually referred to as black. |
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Chestnut
Honey
The Chestnut has been reported to yield an abundance
of a dark strong honey in Rhode Island; but careful
examination with the microscope has failed to reveal
either nectaries or nectar. |
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Clover
Honey
The yellow flowered species of sweet clover blooms 10
days to 2 weeks before the white and their honeys are
usually inseparably mixed. Clover honey has a sweet,
flowery flavor and a pleasing mild taste. |
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Dandelion
Honey
The leaves form a rosette above the central taproot.
A bright yellow flower head (which is open in the daytime
but closes at night) is borne singly on a hollow stem.
Dandelion honey is a deep yellow, has a strong taste
and smells the like the flower. |
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Eucalyptus
Honey
Eucalyptus honey is a mildly sweet, herbal flavor with
a fruity aftertaste, usually dark. Some eucalyptus honeys
have a slight menthol flavor. |
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Heather
Honey
Heather is a small perennial shrub growing to 20-50
cm tall (rarely to 1 m), and is found widely in Europe
and Asia. The honey is reddish-amber, very heavy-bodied
with an aromatic flavor. |
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Lavender
Honey
Lavender is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae,
native to the western Mediterranean region, primarily
in the Pyrenees and other mountains in northern Spain.
Lavender honey has a delicate sweetness with a strong,
floral background. |
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Linden
Honey
Clusters of cream-colored flowers are attached to a
leafy bract and the nectar collects in the sepals. Linden
honey is water-white with a good flavor. It has a fresh
taste similar to green ripening fruit. It is characterized
by its distinctive lingering flavor. |
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Manuka
Honey
Manuka is a shrub or small tree native to New Zealand
and southeast Australia. It is Rich amber colored, medium-strong
and very thick with a barley-sugar flavor and intense,
vigorous and distinctive caramel aftertaste. |
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Rosemary
Honey
Rosemary is a woody, perennial herb with fragrant evergreen
needle-like leaves. The flowers are variable in color,
being white, pink, purple, or blue. It produces a water-white
honey with a fine flavor. |
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Sunflower
Honey
The Helianthus L. genus comprises 67 species and several
subspecies in the Asteraceae family, all of which are
native to North America. The honey is yellow amber;
dry, not too sweet, and crystallizes quickly. |
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Thyme
Honey
Thyme is a genus of about 350 species of aromatic perennial
herbaceous plants. The honey is amber with a strong
minty flavor and odor. |
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Orange
Honey
A leading honey plant in southern Florida, Texas, Arizona
and California, Orange trees bloom in March and April.
The orange honey is a white to extra-light amber honey
with a distinctive flavor and the aroma of orange blossoms. |
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