Tarweed honey
Hemizonia, Centromadia, Deinandra spp. (tarweeds)
Honey from California's tarweeds, sticky, aromatic daisy-family plants that flower in the dry late summer and autumn. It is white to light amber and heavy-bodied.
- Origin
- California
- Colour
- 34 mm · white
- Taste
- full, with a floral aroma
- Plant
- Hemizonia, Centromadia, Deinandra spp. (tarweeds) · tarweed →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
Honeys from the various tarweed species are much alike and smell of the flowers themselves.
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