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Look along the shelves of your grocer, supermarket or

health food shop. The larger the store the more types
of honey you will see. See just how wide is the range
of honey that you can choose from. There will be
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blends of golden liquid honey ranging from plae yellow
to deep rich amber, jellied, creamed or candied
honey. You may even be able to buy honey in the comb — a favourite “sweet” for The Wonderful World of
many as it has a good chewy quality. It’s tasty and it’s fun, and you can eat the wax,
Honey
too.

Flavours and colour

All around Australia bees are busy visiting flowers to collect nectar and pollen. The
flowers visited give honey its flavour and? colour. Should the honeybee visit a mixed
patch of flowers, a special perfume left by the scout bee tells the workers to take the
nectar from only one source so that honey in the hive is but one honey type.

Honeybees have an excellent sense of smell to distinguish between the different

perfumes of the flowers and also have a “perfume dispenser” to tell other bees the
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types of flowers that have been chosen. The bee can also distinguish colours in the world-of-honey/)
blue/green end of the spectrum – and has a time sense, too. There are more floral
sources ideal for honey making in Australia than any other country – so we have the
widest range of tastes and colours. Support AHBIC
The best loved Australian honey flavours come from:

Blue gum – light amber, choice forest honey from the south.
Karri – amber honey from the forests of Western Australia.
Leatherwood – unique honey from the west coast of Tasmania, quick to candy
and extra light in colour.
Lucerne – mild-tasting honey.
Yellow box – pale and sweet honey from New South Wales, Victoria and
Oueensland.
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Stringy bark – strong flavoured, medium amber honey from the Great Dividing voluntary-contribution/)
Range.

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Ti-tree – very strong flavoured honey used mainly in manufacturing, from the
north and south. Latest news
White clover – extra white honey that candies smoothly.
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