Ironwort honey
Sideritis syriaca
A very light mountain honey from Sideritis syriaca (Italian stregonia), a woolly, aromatic dwarf shrub of dry limestone grassland. It flowers from May to July.
- Origin
- Abruzzo, Italy
- Colour
- 15 mm · extra white
- Taste
- faint, delicately floral
- Plant
- Sideritis syriaca · ironwort →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
As a single-flower honey it is known only from Abruzzo; no production is recorded elsewhere in the world.
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