Forest blackberry honey plant

Blackberry gray as a honey plant

Honey plant blackberry gray Latin name Rubus caesius L. Blackberry is a popular berry plant in the world, its large plantations are located in North America, Australia, and Europe. However, in Russia or Belarus, raspberries are more preferred. This is not least due to the fact that blackberries can freeze in severe frosts and with its thorns. In addition to berries, blackberries for bees bring many benefits as a honey plant and pollen, but we will consider everything in order in this article.

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•      Description of the honey plant blackberry gray
•      Blackberry as a honey plant
•      Honey productivity of blackberry gray
•      Honey with blackberries
•      Honey plant blackberry gray in folk medicine
•      Blackberry conclusions as a honey plant

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Description of the honey plant blackberry gray

The blackberry honey plant is a perennial shrub from the Rosaceae family, reaching a height of 50-150 cm, with creeping spiny shoots covered with white bloom.

It should be immediately noted that about 10 types of blackberries are common in nature, on the basis of which breeders bred about 200 varieties of blackberries. Therefore, in nature and in gardens you can find not only a variety of blackberries, but also the color of pollen may differ and the honey production of blackberries.

Blackberry leaves are trifoliate, with rhombic-ovate leaflets.

Blackberry flowers are white, with many stamens and pistils, collected in thyroid racemes. Blackberry fruits are black with a bluish bloom, prefabricated drupes. The taste of blackberries for an amateur.

Blackberry honey plant is widely grown in gardens and plantations.

Pollination of blackberries by bees is one of the mandatory methods of agricultural technology.

Blackberries grow in clearings, forest edges, in sparse forests, along river banks. If the conditions are favorable, then the blackberry occupies vast areas in the forests. Often blackberries are an important component in the melliferous vegetation of the undergrowth and in floodplain and ravine forests.

Often blackberries, along with other berry bushes, such as currants, raspberries, can create impenetrable thickets. Blackberry is suitable for growing in forest gardens, along with chokeberry, barberry, hawthorn, elderberry, honeysuckle, shadberry, viburnum, dogwood, hazel, wild rose, it is readily grown on slopes or at the boundaries of plots, along fences, if there is a need to create a prickly fence.

Blackberry as a honey plant

Is blackberry a honey plant or not? This question arises among young beekeepers for the reason that they do not always see bees on blackberry flowers. It should be noted right away that the blackberry is a honey plant, but it has its own characteristics as a honey plant.

When does blackberry bloom like a honey plant? Blackberry honey plant blooms in June-July. Bees willingly collect nectar and pollen from blackberries. In many regions, blackberries begin to bloom after the raspberries have finished blooming and during the period when there is no honey flow, they will support the development of families with their nectar and pollen.

But what are the features of blackberries as a honey plant?

Honey productivity of blackberry gray

What is the honey productivity of blackberries? How much honey can be collected from 1 hectare of blackberries? It is believed that the honey productivity of 1 hectare of continuous thickets of blackberries is 20-25 kg of honey. However, this is not always the case. The honey productivity of blackberries is largely dependent on the weather.

If there is a lot of rain and no heat, then the blackberry blooms for a month and the bees can collect marketable honey from it. In case of hot weather, the blackberry bloom is reduced to 10 days, the blackberry turns into a honey plant that allows you to collect quite a bit of nectar, there is no need to talk about any marketable honey in such a situation, if there are other honey plants nearby at this time, then the bees will be on them, and not on blackberry flowers.

The blackberry melliferous plant is an excellent pollen-bearing plant from blackberry flowers, bees carry pollen of a greenish color, which tastes sweet, but has a sour taste. In some regions, it is noted that the color of the pollen, which the bees collect from blackberries, is rusty-gray.

Honey with blackberries

Commercial honey from blackberries is not often obtained by beekeepers, for the most part it goes to the development of bee colonies. But in a good year, the control hive can weigh up to 3 kg per day. Blackberry honey is light, transparent, sometimes with a yellowish tint, pleasant to the taste. So there is no need to look for blackberry honey on the market, in the best case you will buy honey from herbs, one of the components of which was blackberry.

Honey plant blackberry gray in folk medicine

The blackberry honey plant is also used in folk medicine. Blackberry leaves have astringent, diaphoretic, hemostatic, “blood-purifying”, analgesic and wound-healing effects. The leaves also have an antiseptic (anti-putrefactive) property, improve intestinal motility, cleanse wounds from pus.

Blackberry conclusions as a honey plant

Thus, the blackberry melliferous plant is an excellent berry shrub that needs to be pollinated by bees, which can be used in landscaping, is a supportive melliferous plant, which is an integral part of the melliferous vegetation of the forest, a good pollen plant that has helped allows bees to develop their colonies and in some years can give a small amount of marketable honey.