Cornflower honey
Centaurea cyanus
A rare single-flower honey from cornflower, a weed of cereal fields. It is medium-light and strikingly yellow.
- Origin
- Poland, Germany
- Colour
- 34 mm · white
- Plant
- Centaurea cyanus · knapweed (cornflower) →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
Cornflower nectar is itself coloured, so the honey turns a fluorescent yellow as it thickens.
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