2.24 Floral Sources of Unpalatable Honey

Question 1

Sources of Unpleasant Honey

Answer 1

Privet - bitter taste, spoils other honey if mixed
Ivy - subjective
Common Ragwort - bitter taste said to improve with time
Rhododendron Poisonous nectar though not much visited by honey bees so not considered a problem.
Native limes are fine but some imported plants of Tilia can knock bees unconscious andsome may die.

Question 2

Sources of poisonous Honey

Answer 2

Rhododendron ponticum ericaceae

Mountain laurel

Question 3

Sources poisonous to bees

Answer 3

Rhododendron pasticum
Tilia Tomentosa (weeping silver lime)
Tilia Petiolaris (silver lime)