Tropical acacia (mangium) honey

Honey from plantations of fast-growing acacias in South-East Asia; bees collect the sweet secretion from nectaries on young shoots and leaf stalks rather than from the flowers. Fresh honey is light amber but darkens quickly to amber or dark amber.

Origin

Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia

Colour

50 mm · extra light amber

Season

Plant

Acacia mangium, A. auriculiformis a jejich kříženec (mimokvětní nektária) · acacia (wattle) →

Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.

Acacia mangium accounts for roughly 60 per cent of Vietnam’s honey crop; it is unrelated to the European ‘acacia’ honey from black locust.