Beech honeydew honey
Nothofagus solandri, N. fusca + Ultracoelostoma assimile, U. brittini
Dark honeydew honey from southern beech forests. The sweet liquid is excreted by scale insects living on the trunks and branches.
- Origin
- Beech forests of the South Island, New Zealand
- Colour
- 88 mm · amber
- Taste
- malty, earthy, not very sweet
- Crystallization
- very slow
- Plant
- Nothofagus solandri, N. fusca + Ultracoelostoma assimile, U. brittini · southern beech →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
The scale insects exude sweet droplets at the tips of thin waxy threads that stick out of the tree bark.
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