California buckwheat honey
Eriogonum fasciculatum
A summer honey from the shrub Eriogonum fasciculatum, California's most important native honey plant. It is light amber and, apart from the name, unrelated to common buckwheat honey.
- Origin
- Southern California, USA
- Colour
- 65 mm · light amber
- Plant
- Eriogonum fasciculatum · wild buckwheat →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
When California buckwheat flowers at the same time as the sages, it turns the otherwise white sage honey amber.
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