New Zealand made New Zealand Rewarewa Honey - Variety: Rewarewa
Appearance: Light amber with orange hints
Flavour: Clean, sweet, smoky, herbacesous, complex
Rewarewa, known as New Zealand Honeysuckle for its freeflowing nectar from the flowers, is a tall, slender, elegant member of the unspoiled native New Zealand forest.
Rewarewa (Knightia excelsa) Family: Proteaceae Rewarewa is the New Zealand Honeysuckle. The large cluster of brick red flowers provide copious volumes of nectar giving the plant its common-name. The honey-bee produces from it an unusually dark and rich flavoured honey.
It is a tall tree with handsome limbs, and in summer bright red needle-like flowers which curl into tight intricate spirals. This spiral shape is very much a motif of the New Zealand bush and can be seen repeatedly in New Zealand art. Rewarewa wood is, like it's flower, red in colour.
It is a sunshine wood and the honey it produces contains this same warm, glowing quality. The rich, red honey the Rewarewa tree produces is comparatively mild, and popular with those who enjoy bush honey. "Red, warm and sweet, this honey is a taste of the Pacific sun".
The nectar used to be collected by the Maori to eat; the picked flowers would be tapped on the inside of a container with the nectar flowing freely. In times past the Rewarewa nectar was used to cure sore throats. Rewa Rewa occurs in lowland and subalpine forests from North Cape to Marlborough.
Free world-wide shipping and gift wrapping on all items. |
Gift certificates
Help
Affiliate
Shopping cart
Cart is empty
Authentication
News