Clover Honey

DISTRIBUTION: Mediterranean Basin: Italy // Eastern, Central and Western Europe: Bulgaria, France // North America: USA // South America: Chile // Australia, New Zealand

SPECIES: White clover – Trifolium repens / Red clover – Trifolium pratense / Strawberry clover – Trifolium fragiferum / Alsike clover – Trifolium hybridum / Subterranean clover – Trifolium subterraneum / Egyptian clover – Trifolium alexandrinum / Italian clover – Trifolium incarnatum

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COLOUR: Light yellow, pale yellow

TEXTURE: Fine crystallization

SMELL / AROMA: Floral, fragrant

There are many species of clover, the best known being white and red. It is widely grown as fodder in Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. Clover is a self-fertilizing plant, as it has the ability to absorb nitrogen from the air and fix it in the soil. It is an excellent natural fertilizer, enriching the soils on which it grows.

Clover honey is the most common type of monofloral honey in the USA, where it is harvested from various species of clover (white, red) or other genetically related genera (sweet clover – Melilotus officinalis).

In Italy it is mainly produced from Trifolium repens, Trifolium alexandrinum, Trifolium incarnatum.