Viper's bugloss honey
Echium vulgare
Golden-yellow honey from the blue-flowered viper's bugloss, which covers mountain valleys and riverbeds on the South Island. Its high fructose content keeps it liquid for a long time.
- Origin
- New Zealand (Marlborough, Kaikoura, Otago)
- Colour
- 24 mm · white
- Taste
- light, clean, floral, lemony
- Crystallization
- slow
- Plant
- Echium vulgare · viper's bugloss →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
It darkens about twice as fast as most New Zealand honeys.
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