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Fireweed as a Honey Plant
Fireweed or great willow herb Epilobium angustifolium yields large crops of white honey in Canada after fires in humus or clay soils. In the north it blooms after clover, lasts about seven weeks, with peak in mid summer. In Gatineau Quebec Temiskaming Kenora districts honey flow starts mid July, peaks mid August, ends with frost. Pacific coast bloom is in June and July. Yields decline as other vegetation chokes regrowth. root stalks re-sprout after fires, producing tall flowering stems the following year.
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Canada
Gatineau Valley
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Temiskaming
Kenora
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