This presentations shows the pollen grains found in three honey samples from a workshop in November 2017. One is from Beulah/Newbridge, one from Talgarth/Bronllys and one from Painscastle

1. Honey ID
Three honey samples from the
Brecon and Radnor area
Chris Cardew November 2017 to March 2018

2. Honey No.1
• This honey is from the general Talgarth, Bronllys area.
• The overriding pollen is from Apple, with much also from Hawthorn.
There are also pollen grains from several other plants including; oak,
daffodil, white clover, dandelion, redshank, broad bean, oil seed rape
and borage. There are several smaller pollen grains which are very
difficult to identify, but I would guess that they might come from
trees; willow and birch.

3. The triangular pollen grain
is APPLE between 37-
39um in width.
The middle grain of the
lower three is OIL SEED
RAPE
The grain top right is
around 22um, I think this
might be HAZEL, but not
the most striking example

4. The large round grain
is most likely
REDSHANK (36um). A
weed of cultivation.

5. The lower darker square looking pollen
grain is DANDELION (30um although the
books vary on size up to 40um).
The upper triangular grain looks like
RASPBERRY or MOUNTAIN ASH (28-30um)

6. The large circular
grain (38um) not sure
what this is but it
may be a grass.

7. The long cylindrical pollen grain is
that of BROADBEAN (49um). The
books state that broadbean is
around 42um, but there is some
variation.
Broadbean is very similar in shape
to Hogweed, but hogweed has
slight inversions half way along the
grain.
The circular grain with three
distinct white marks looks like
WOOD SORREL or
MEADOWSWEET(18um)

8. The round pollen
grain with 10
furrows is that of
BORAGE (33um)

9. These pear shaped grains
are those of the PEAR
(39um) Sawyer Pollen ID
p68.

10. The half moon shape pollen grain is that
of DAFFODIL (55um). Bluebell is similar
but smaller (42um)

11. APPLE (37-39um) to
the right and
HAWTHORN (37um)
to the left.
What I really liked
here was the image of
a creature in the main
part of the photo.

12. APPLE lower left and HAWTHORN mid
right.
In between these two is an oval pollen
grain with spiky edges about 28um in
width. This could by a PRIVET grain.
Interesting that a small ‘branch’ has
been captured being just over 1mm in
length

13. Honey No 4
• This honey comes from the Beulah Newbridge area.
• It includes pollen grains from Lime, Maize, Field Thistle, Cow Parsley,
Dandelion, Bluebell, Gorse, Blackthorn and Hazel among others

14. A plain oval shaped
pollen grain of around
55um in width is
probably that of a
cereal such as MAIZE

15. The pollen grain below is that of
LIME (28um)

16. FIELD THISTLE pollen grain
(40um)

17. The long oval pollen grain is
COW PARSLEY(30UM).
The central grain is GORSE
(30um)
The larger grain at the
bottom has the shape of
clover but is too big at 40um.
I feel that this may be
VIRGINIA CREEPER.

18. The main pollen
grain is that of
DANDELION (32um).
The grain to the
immediate top right
of it looks like HAZEL
(20um)

19. this may be
BLACKTHORN
pollen grain
37um because
of the little
dimples in the
three corners

20. This pollen grain
might be that of
GORSE 25um

21. I think this may be the half
moon shape of the
BLUEBELL pollen grain
40um

26. Honey No 6
• This honey is from the Painscastle area
• Predominantly heather honey with both ling and bell heather, also
common mallow, field thistle, harebell, bramble, white clover and
meadow sweet or wood sorrel.

27. This large round spiky
pollen grain is from
COMMON MALLOW
(110um)
Attached to it are
heather and other
smaller grains

28. Several grains of LING
HEATHER and the smaller
round grains are
MEADOWSWEET or WOOD
SORREL

29. The triangular grain is
pollen is from BRAMBLE or
BLACKBERRY (32um)

30. The spiky round grain to
the left is that of a FIELD
THISTLE (40um).
The small triangular
grain below WHITE
CLOVER (20um)

31. The three smaller round grains each
with three equidistant white markings
look like MEADOWSWEET or WOOD
SORREL (18um). (Dorothy Hodges has
white charlock looking identical to
these but I am not aware of any such
crops in recent years).
The larger round pollen grain is more
difficult to determine. The closest I can
find is HAREBELL (40um)
The grain lowest left is LING HEATHER

32. A mixture of LING
(36um)and BELL
HEATHER (42um)