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Do bees discriminate between trees?
Oh I know this one! Bees distrimimate based on food availability, as different trees flower at different times of the year. A wild honeybee nest will forage hotspots within ~6km, but Typically will stay within a km. The different honeys are classified by the beekeepers who follow the "golden highway" as different species bloom, and knowing what the bees were foraging before harvesting leads to the type of honey produced. It's been a while since I thought about bees, so as always, feel free to fact check and correct!
Honey from different plants tastes different. You'll get something super different in a clovery meadow than you would in a stand of ironbark trees.
Beekeepers can move their hives around. Bee man has probably got a reliable stand of banksia for them to buzz in
What Alamut said :) Banksia has been my favourite of all the honeys ive tried so far, which is why i chose it for this traditional so that i can try to really celebrate that flavour :D