Tigray becium honey

Creamy white honey from the small shrub Becium grandiflorum of the mint family, one of the most important bee plants of northern Ethiopia. It granulates rapidly.

Origin

Ethiopia (Tigray)

Colour

17 mm · extra white

Taste

light, pleasant

Crystallization

fast

Season

Plant

Becium grandiflorum · Becium →

Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.

Becium flowers straight after short rains and, given enough water, up to four times a year.