honey plant

noun5

1. •
   Any plant from which bees usually collect nectar, pollen, or both for making honey.

   • The lack of literature concerning the tulip-tree as a honey-plant is a serious one and the chief object of this bulletin is to make up this deficiency. — 1922
2. •
   The name of a number of not closely related plants.
3. •
   A plant of the genus Hoya, especially the porcelainflower or waxplant (Hoya carnosa) from the tendency for excess nectar to drip from its flowers.

   • Hoya carnosa (honey-plant). Although this is a hot-house plant it can be grown in the window of the sitting-room, and I have grown and flowered it exceedingly well in an ordinary greenhouse; […] — 1876
4. •
   A plant of the genus Melissa, especially lemon balm (Melissa officinalis).

   • Honey-plant [Melissa officinalis L[innaeus] [i.e., Carl Linnaeus] (family Lamiaceae)] contains a very low concentration of essential oil in leaves (0.02–0.2 vol%). — 2003
5. •
   Bishop's weed or false Queen Anne's lace (Ammi majus).

   • English name: Honey Plant […] Species and varieties: Ammi majus L. […] — 2004