The brilliantly-showy berries of the Brazilian pepper tree made it a prized ornamental plant in the 1800s.

Now it is considered an invasive species in the United States, and the state of Florida has from time to time launched eradication efforts which have largely proved, well, unfruitful.

Recently south Florida beekeepers have begun marketing honey produced from the blossoms of the Brazilian pepper.  Of course it’s not exclusively from that tree… who knows where all their bees wander?… but what The Old Lady has sampled tasted robust and slightly kinda sorta like sweet potatoes.

Instead of making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, beekeepers make sweetness from weeds!