Prickly box honey
Bursaria spinosa
Honey from prickly box, a spiny shrub of Tasmania's dry east that flowers around Christmas. It is golden and sets almost at once, so it is sold creamed.
- Origin
- eastern Tasmania
- Colour
- 40 mm · extra light amber
- Taste
- caramel with an almond note
- Crystallization
- very fast
- Plant
- Bursaria spinosa · prickly box →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
Tasmanian beekeepers take this crop before the hives are moved west for the leatherwood season.
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