Poisonous Flower Honey. How to Choose Flowers to Support Bees. Not for the bees.
Azalea Trumpet flower Oleander Yellow Jasmine Mountain Laurel Stargazer Heliconia or Lobster Claws Bog Rosemary and Amaryllis. How to Choose Flowers to Support Bees. Oct 24 2009 Honey Bees are attracted to the mountain laurel and if they spend a lot of the season collecting pollen and nectar from it they can produce a poisonous honey.
Aug 26 2019 California buckeye.
When this nectar is transformed into honey it may be toxic to the bees or even humans in some cases. Honey bees are attracted to all of them toxic or non-toxic and produce a tasty honey that in spring beekeepers usually leave it in the hive for them to feed themselves after a long winter. A common landscaping choice in California this buckeye tree is toxic to honeybees. Mar 15 2016 Mad honey is the toxic honey produced by bees feeding on nectar of Rhododendron ponticum in its native northern Turkey.