Do you know rosemary? 🌿✨

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is an aromatic plant that grows wild along the Mediterranean coasts. It is an evergreen shrub, and its highly fragrant leaves are well known in cooking.
The flowers, which are blue-mauve in color, bloom for a long period, starting from February. The rosemary flower, like that of other plants in the Lamiaceae family, is adapted to welcome bees and other pollinating insects 🐝.
The lower petal, which is larger, acts as a landing pad for the insects. The stamens bend forward to “dust” their visitors with pollen.
Bees produce a light-colored honey 🍯 with a very delicate aroma and flavor and a fine crystallization.
⁉️ Did you know? 😲
It seems that the name Rosmarinus refers to the heavenly color of the flowers, reminiscent of the color of the sea.
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