Tallow Tree Varietal Honey

The Honey: Tallow Tree Honey has a slight bitterness with notes of cinnamon and vanilla accenting its sweetness.  Tallow Tree honey is often a higher moisture honey as it is from a coastal region, with high humidity.

The Plant: On the coastal prairie along the Texas Gulf Coast grows a tree that was introduced into the Houston area in the 1950s as an ornamental landscaping tree. The Chinese Tallow Tree (Triadica sebifera) has a beautiful red heart shaped leaves in the fall along the coast making it one of the few trees to "true colors" in that area. Surely this was why it was imported...for it is fall showiness. Now, it has become an invasive weed along the coast from the Louisiana border down past Lake Jackson and inland for a hundred miles or so in places. Cattle ranches fight it. Municipalities spend tax dollars trying to eradicate it. But honey bees and beekeepers love it.

The Provenance: Texas Gulf Coast

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