Salvation Jane honey
Echium plantagineum
Honey from purple viper's bugloss, a weed introduced from Europe that turns southern Australian pastures purple in spring. It is pale, sometimes almost white, thin and slow to granulate.
- Origin
- South Australia, western slopes of New South Wales
- Colour
- 40 mm · extra light amber
- Taste
- clean, delicately floral
- Crystallization
- slow
- Plant
- Echium plantagineum · viper's bugloss →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
Farmers call the plant Paterson's curse because it poisons livestock; beekeepers call it Salvation Jane because it fills the hives early in spring.
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