Single-Flower Honeys

Single-flower (monofloral) honeys are those in which the nectar comes predominantly from one botanical source. These honeys reveal the unique flavor, aroma, and terroir of the flower from which they originate, offering an extraordinary way to explore landscapes, seasons, and cultural traditions through taste.

Around the world, beekeepers seek specific floral blooms – from acacia to chestnut, citrus, thyme, linden, and high-mountain wildflowers – each producing a honey with its own identity. These honeys are shaped not only by the flower itself, but by soil type, climate, elevation, and the presence of companion plants and forest species.

This section collects the world’s major single-flower honeys, providing each with its own dedicated page that includes botanical notes, flavor profiles, global terroir mapping, food pairings, cultural history, and traditional uses.

Acacia Honey (Black Locust) The honey of the black locust tree, sold nearly everywhere as acacia honey: very pale, faintly floral and slow to crystallise, made from France and Hungary to China and Korea. Blackberry Honey Blackberry grows along hedgerows, roadsides and railway banks. Bees work the blossom in June, weeks before anyone picks the fruit off the same canes. Blueberry Honey Blueberry growers rent beehives to pollinate their crop, in Maine, Peru and Poland. The beekeeper is paid for the bees and keeps the honey they make in the blueberry fields. Buckwheat Honey The same near-black honey is a state standard in Russia, an EU protected honey in Poland, and off-grade in China's old grading. Buyers everywhere either love it or refuse it. Carob Honey Honey from the flowers of the carob tree, which blooms in autumn around the Mediterranean; made in small, irregular lots from Portugal to Jordan, amber to dark brown. Chestnut Honey Amber honey from the sweet chestnut's summer flow, dark for a blossom honey, with a long bitter finish the trade knows it by; Europe's registers split over its sweetness. Clover Honey The pale, mild honey of white clover pasture, sold from the Dakotas to Hokkaido; it granulates within a month of the extractor and sets opaque white in the jar. Dandelion Honey A bright yellow spring honey from dandelion nectar, glucose-heavy and quick to set, so it is often stirred creamy; pungent on the nose, finer in the mouth. Erica Heather Honey The dark, caramel-tasting heather honeys of the Erica heaths, sold under their own names in sixteen countries from Portugal to Ethiopia and taken from spring bloom to midwinter. Eucalyptus Honey The world's most widely planted honey tree, carried out of Australia to forty countries: a clean, medicinal honey of damp wood and menthol that hardens fast in the jar, ranging from pale table honey to medicinal-grade jarrah. Heather Honey The dark red-amber honey of northern heaths and moors: a gel that holds its shape in the jar, pricked or pressed out of the comb at summer's end. Lavender Honey A pale, fine-crystallising honey made mostly on lavandin, the hybrid lavender grown for its oil, and sold as lavender honey from France to Bulgaria and Xinjiang. Linden - Lime - Basswood Honey The honey of a tree that Europe and Asia planted at the centre of villages rather than in orchards: pale as water and far stronger than its colour suggests, off a bloom so brief that half a continent named a month after it. Mangrove Honey A coastal honey gathered where forest meets the tide, recognized as a single-source honey since the 1890s and ranging from water-clear to near-black with the trees that make it. Milk Thistle Honey Mint Honey Amber to dark with a reddish cast, strongly aromatic and lightly sweet, mint honey is sold from fifteen countries, most of it off wild mint on wet ground. Orange Blossom Honey A pale, sweet, flower-scented honey from the spring bloom of citrus orchards, sold under the orange's name and usually a mix of several citrus blossoms. Star Thistle Honey Strawberry Tree Honey A bitter honey from the strawberry tree's autumn and winter flowers, made in the Mediterranean maquis from Sardinia and Corsica to the Algarve, the Rif and Greece. Thistle Honey Amber with a green cast in the light, moderately sweet with a bitter finish, thistle honey is made in twenty-nine countries from Sardinia to Siberia. Thyme Honey Amber honey from thyme, floral and resinous with a clear acid edge; made and sold in thirty-one countries, from Portugal to Mongolia and New Zealand. Viper's Bugloss/Blue Borage - Echium spp. Honey A pale, floral monofloral from viper's bugloss (Echium), made in New Zealand, Spain, Italy, Tenerife, and Australia under names from Blue Borage to tajinaste.