Warm and floral with a faint tannic dryness, reflecting the tree's very high tannin content. An agreeable everyday honey.
A dry-season honey from a thorny pioneer tree that colonises cleared ground across Chiapas and northeastern Brazil. It is a substantial commercial crop in both, and it has the uncomfortable property of becoming more abundant as forest is cleared.
Mid amber, clear and bright.
On setting: Sets to a fine mid-brown grain.
Moderate — granulates over a few months
Sets over a few months where storage temperatures allow.
These are typical ranges assembled across published work, not measurements of a specific honey. Consistent with the leguminous dryland tree honeys generally.
What these mean: the sugars and the ratio · moisture · conductivity · how each is measured
Resolved from both directions — origins this honey names, and origins that name it.
Mexican dry-season timing. Brazilian caatinga populations flower on the opposite half of the year.
A pioneer species on cleared and degraded land, which means the honey supply expands as forest cover contracts — a relationship worth stating plainly rather than presenting as good news.
A versatile everyday honey, robust enough for coffee and cheap enough locally to cook with.
At the tableSpreadingIn hot drinksBakingGlazing and roasting
Enough body to be tasted through a dark roast, and it is the regional way of drinking both.
A mild fresh cheese against a warm floral honey, which is a standard Mexican plate.
The everyday use across its range.
Selected by this honey’s own recorded intensity, flavour families and uses rather than by anything written above — each page prints the rule that put it there.
The tree's Mexican reputation dates largely from its use treating burn victims after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, which turned a regional remedy into a national one. None of that has anything to do with the honey.
Traditional use records that people have done something, and for how long. It is not evidence that it works.
Widely repeated and not supported by current evidence. Listed so the correction is here rather than only the claim.
The bark's traditional use is well documented and is a property of the bark. Nectar carries flower chemistry, not bark chemistry, and no analysis supports transferring the association to the honey.
How sources are selected and weighted is set out in the sources and evidence policy.
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