Silver fir honeydew honey
Abies alba
Dark honey with a greenish sheen. Bees collect it not from flowers but from the sweet excretions of aphids on fir trees.
- Origin
- Black Forest, Vosges, Alps, Šumava
- Colour
- 110 mm · amber
- Taste
- malty, resinous, not very sweet
- Crystallization
- very slow
- Plant
- Abies alba · fir →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
Honeydew honeys contain more minerals than blossom honeys and conduct electricity better; conductivity is one of the features used to tell them apart.
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Sources
- Persano Oddo L., Piro R. (2004): Main European unifloral honeys: descriptive sheets. Apidologie 35, S38–S81.
- Směrnice Rady 2001/110/ES o medu (ve znění směrnice (EU) 2024/1438).
- vetuni.cz/files/2340_59_ATLAS.pdf