Melliferous flower - Wikipedia Apiculture classifies a plant as melliferous if it can be harvested by domesticated honey bees The table below lists some of the known melliferous plants, and indicates the flowering period, as well as the resources harvested by bees (nectar, pollen, propolis, and honeydew)
melliferous - Wiktionary, the free dictionary A western honey bee (Apis mellifera) on a melliferous (sense 1) flower Learned borrowing from Latin mellifer (“honey-bearing, honey-producing, melliferous”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting the presence of a quality, typically in abundance)
Plant these honey-rich flower bearers for a buzzing garden Melliferous plants are plant species that produce significant amounts of nectar and pollen which makes them appealing to pollinators More often than not, these flowers are large or fragrant, and are thus excellent choices to decorate our gardens
melliferous - definition and meaning - Wordnik Producing honey, as a plant; mellific Bearing or preparing honey, as a bee; specifically, of or pertaining to the Mellifera from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English adjective Producing honey from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License
Melliferous - Word Genius We often speak about honey as primarily the product of bees, but bees need to harvest substances from melliferous plants, which contain source nectar for honey