List of honeydew sources
This is a list of honeydew sources. Honeydew is a sugary excretion from plant sap sucking insects such as aphids or scales. There are many trees that are hosts to aphids and scale insects that produce honeydew
Honeydew sources
[edit]Common name | Latin name | Country and Comments |
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Silver fir | Abies alba | Source of German Black Forest honey, Serbia, Kosovo |
Bulgarian fir | Abies borisiiregis | Bulgaria |
Greek fir | Abies cephalonica | Greece |
Maple | Acer spp. | |
Hazel | Corylus spp. | |
Common hazel | Corylus avellana | Serbia, Kosovo |
Turkish filbert | Corylus colurna | Serbia, Kosovo |
Hawthorn | Crataegus spp. | |
Beech | Fagus sylvatica | Serbia, Kosovo |
Ash | Fraxinus excelsior, Fraxinus ornus | |
Hickory | Carya spp. | Erratic producer; low quality honey |
Eastern juniper | Juniperus virginiana | Honeydew crop rare |
Larch | Larix decidua | |
Apple | Malus sylvestris | |
Red beech | Nothofagus fusca | Source of New Zealand honeydew honey from Ultracoelostoma assimile and Ultracoelostoma brittini |
Black beech | Nothofagus solandri | Source of New Zealand honeydew honey from Ultracoelostoma assimile and Ultracoelostoma brittini |
Norway spruce | Picea abies | Europe, Serbia, Kosovo, Source of German Black Forest honey |
Pine | Pinus spp. | |
Turkish pine | Pinus brutia | Source of Turkish honeydew honey from Marchalina hellenica |
Aleppo pine | Pinus halepensis | |
Mountain pine | Pinus mugo | Serbia, Kosovo |
Black pine | Pinus nigra | Serbia, Kosovo |
Scots pine | Pinus sylvestris | |
White poplar | Populus alba | Serbia, Kosovo |
Black poplar | Populus nigra | Serbia, Kosovo |
Aspen | Populus tremula | Serbia, Kosovo |
Apricot | Prunus armeniaca | |
Cherry | Prunus spp. | |
Plum | Prunus domestica | |
Peach | Prunus persica | |
Pear | Pyrus communis | |
Oak | Quercus spp. | Spain |
Austrian oak | Quercus cerris | Serbia, Kosovo |
Oak | Quercus dilatata | Himalaya |
Hungarian oak | Quercus frainetto | Serbia, Kosovo |
Sessile oak | Quercus petraea | Europe, Serbia, Kosovo |
Downy oak | Quercus pubescens | Serbia, Kosovo |
Pedunculate oak (English oak) | Quercus robur | Europe, West Asia |
Gooseberry | Ribes uva-crispa | |
Weeping willow | Salix × sepulcralis 'Chrysocoma' | |
Willow | Salix alba | |
Rowan | Sorbus aucuparia | |
Linden | Tilia spp. | |
Small-leaved lime | Tilia cordata | Serbia, Kosovo |
Large-leaved lime | Tilia platyphyllos | Serbia, Kosovo |
Silver lime | Tilia tomentosa | Serbia, Kosovo |
American elm | Ulmus americana |
References
[edit]- Apidologie 33 (2002) 353–354[permanent dead link] accessed Feb 2005
- Some Ohio Nectar and Pollen Producing Plants Dr. Jame E. Tew Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet 1998; accessed Feb 2005
- New Zealand Honey; accessed May 2005
- All about honey; accessed Feb 2005
- New Zealand Honey accessed April 2007
- Spanish unifloral honeys; accessed Feb 2016
- [1] accessed March 2016