Czech phacelia honey

A yellowish-brown honey from lacy phacelia, sown by farmers as a cover crop and prized by beekeepers for its rich nectar. It stays liquid for a long time.

Origin

Czechia, phacelia fields

Colour

42 mm · extra light amber

Taste

pronounced

Crystallization

slow

Season

June – August

Plant

Phacelia tanacetifolia · phacelia →

Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical of the variety, not a measurement of one jar. Where a source describes the colour only in words (such as ‘light amber’), we convert it to the middle of the matching band of the Pfund scale, so the figure is approximate. The season follows the sources or, failing that, the flowering time of the plant in that area.

Phacelia comes from California; in Czechia it is grown mainly as green manure and as forage for bees.