Pine honeydew honey
Pinus brutia + Marchalina hellenica
Amber honeydew honey from the excretions of the scale insect Marchalina hellenica, which feeds on pines in the eastern Mediterranean.
- Origin
- Turkey (Muğla), Greece
- Colour
- 100 mm · amber
- Taste
- not very sweet, woody, spicy
- Crystallization
- very slow
- Plant
- Pinus brutia + Marchalina hellenica · pine →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
Turkey and Greece produce most of the world’s pine honey; in Turkey it is called çam balı.
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Sources
- Marchese C. M. (2024): The World Atlas of Honey. University of California Press.