Has anyone had honey this black before? (the brown honey is to compare from another local beekeeper) and would they know what local plants might me the reason, I live in the Northern Rivers NSW
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I’ve seen callistemon (bottlebrush) honey that looked like tar.
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Buckwheat, chestnut, tulip poplar and knotweed honey can all be very dark. 
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If you have red flowering paper barks in your area it is a possible. Whatever the bees foraged on it must be in abundance there so I would be looking in the bush rather than crops or suburbia…
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might be onto something there were do have a few paperbark trees
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Wow that looks like molasses. I love the dark honeys and wouldn’t mind giving this a try! Are you selling this at any of the local farmers markets?
The lemon flowering paper bark is a light color honey but up here the red flowering paper bark flowers at a different time and it’s honey is bitumen black and nice taste to it.
Cheers
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Could be Bloodwoods, it produces an extremely dark honey. I think you need to make up a floral calendar .
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More importantly, how does it taste? Looks yummmmmmm
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You sure they have not raided a licorice factory?
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Nope will never be that organised!
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Taste is good, cant really taste anything distinctive so it’s hard to describe
Ahh that’s a shame! Though more for you to enjoy 
Have you seen this already? The honey flavour and aroma chart on page 4 is the bit that might be of interest…
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Thanks Ill take a look
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