A melliferous flower is a plant which produces substances that can be collected by insects and turned into honey. Many plants are melliferous, but only...
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Lavandula (category Melliferous flowers)
2004. Lavender flower Flower of cultivated lavender; Lavandula stoechas Lavender garden, India Lavandula fields near Drama The flower of Lavandula angustifolia...
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Centaurea cyanus (redirect from Boutonniere flower)
5 mm long with 2–3 mm-long pappus bristles. It flowers all summer. Centaurea cyanus is a diploid flower (2n = 24). The genetic diversity within populations...
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Taraxacum (category Melliferous flowers)
family Asteraceae, they have very small flowers collected together into a composite flower head. Each single flower in a head is called a floret. In part...
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Thyme (category Melliferous flowers)
snipped from the plant. It is composed of a woody stem with paired leaf or flower clusters ("leaves") spaced 15 to 25 millimetres (1⁄2 to 1 inch) apart. A...
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America for its foliage and fruit. In its native habitat it is a melliferous flower and is the main source of food for the stingless bee Tetragonisca...
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Ribes (category Melliferous flowers)
strikingly diverse flowers and fruit. They have either palmately lobed or compound leaves, and some have thorns. The sepals of the flowers are larger than...
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Papaver rhoeas (category Melliferous flowers)
Hemisphere it generally flowers in late spring (between May and October in the UK) but if the weather is warm enough other flowers frequently appear at the...
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Passiflora suberosa (redirect from Corky-stemmed Passion Flower)
is that the lower part of the trunk becomes corky with aging. The melliferous flowers are solitary or in pairs, and grow in the leaf axils. Greenish or...
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Nectar source (category Flowers)
hummingbirds. Forage (honeybee) Honeydew source List of honey plants Melliferous flower Pollen source Regional honeys "Nectar Plants - an overview | ScienceDirect...
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Arbutus unedo (category Melliferous flowers)
tree is the national tree of Italy because of its green leaves, its white flowers and its red berries, colors that recall the Italian flag. Arbutus unedo...
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List of Northern American nectar sources for honey bees (category Lists of flowers)
plants List of honeydew sources Nectar source List of pollen sources Melliferous flower Regional honeys "Andrew Delmar Hopkins - Southern Forest Insect Work...
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Acer pseudoplatanus (category Melliferous flowers)
leafstalks and are large and palmate, with five large radiating lobes. The flowers are greenish-yellow and hang in dangling flowerheads called panicles. They...
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Forage (honey bee) (category Flowers)
honey plants List of Northern American nectar sources for honey bees Melliferous flower Nectar source Pollen source Regional honeys Eckert, JE, The flight...
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Trifolium repens (category Melliferous flowers)
end of 7 centimetres (2+3⁄4 in) peduncles or inflorescence stalks. The flowers are mostly visited by bumblebees and often by honey bees. The leaves are...
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List of pollen sources (category Flowers)
pollen basket Dandelion pollen Forage (honey bee) List of honey plants Melliferous flower Nectar source THE R-VALUES OF HONEY: POLLEN COEFFICIENT Archived 2006-07-24...
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Robinia (category Melliferous flowers)
metres (13–82 ft) tall. The leaves are pinnate with 7–21 oval leaflets. The flowers are white or pink, in usually pendulous racemes. Many species have thorny...
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mainly cycads, Equisetum, and ferns. Sage Garden – Salvia species of melliferous flower and used by bees as honey forage. Sheep Food Garden – plants that...
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Cornus sanguinea (category Melliferous flowers)
below, and rough with short stiff pubescence.: 509 The hermaphrodite flowers are small, 5–10 millimetres (0.2–0.4 in) diameter, with four creamy white...
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source Northern American nectar sources for honey bees Pollen source Melliferous flower Regional honeys Dalman, Gustaf (2013). Work and Customs in Palestine...
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Ludwigia peploides (section Flowers and fruits)
traded originally for ornamental purposes. Ludwigia peploides are both melliferous and polliniferous. Numerous compounds which have medicinal properties...
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an economic point of view, we mention the importance of fodder, melliferous flowers, medicine, food, decoration, etc. Among the food species, we find:...
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Society's Award of Garden Merit. 'Mrs Kendal Clark' Geranium pratense is a melliferous herb. Its nectar secretion is 1.3 – 1.5 mg/24 hrs. with a sugar content...
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Fabaceae (redirect from Pea-flower)
Castanospermum australe. Melliferous plants offer nectar to bees and other insects to encourage them to carry pollen from the flowers of one plant to others...
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fruits are eaten as well. In Cameroon, Nymphaea maculata is an important melliferous plant for honey production. "Nymphaea maculata Schumach. & Thonn". Plants...
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of fallows, paper elaboration, medicinal plant and honey production (melliferous species). Due to their high protein contents, Crotalaria longirostrata...
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inches) and a diameter of 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 inches). The flowers are ephemeral and melliferous. The purple-red, smooth fruits are inverted-egg-shaped and...
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Rapeseed (redirect from Rape flowers)
grazing livestock 80 to 90 days after planting. Rapeseed has a high melliferous potential (produces substances that can be collected by insects) and...
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"(Re-)Creational Center Belgrade Silos". The melliferous garden has been planted around the silos, containing over 700 melliferous plants, and in 2021 the honey production...
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