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Different botanical sources of honey

In previous articles, we’ve introduced the topic of how different plants can be used in honey production, and that honey produced from differing plants will have differing nutritional compositions, potentially providing us with different tastes, health or medicinal benefits. Table 1 below display a small selection of some of the more popular plants used for honey making in Australia.

Australian Bees

There are approximately 20,000 species of bees known to the scientific world, and they are spread around the planet to varying degrees. But how many of those species can be found in Australia, and how many are natives to our Great Southern Land? According to the most recent estimates, approximately 1,700 species of native bees...