Gallberry honey
Ilex glabra
A light, thick honey from the small white flowers of inkberry holly, an evergreen shrub of the pine flatwoods around the Okefenokee Swamp.
- Origin
- USA – south-east Georgia, Florida, South Carolina
- Colour
- 34 mm · white
- Taste
- thick, gently spicy, faintly bitter
- Crystallization
- slow
- Plant
- Ilex glabra · gallberry (holly) →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
In south-east Georgia it is traditionally sold as comb honey.
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