I hadn't heard of this before, but apparently bees that primarily visit Rhododendrons produce honey that is "moderately toxic and narcotic."

I once was hiking up a hillside covered in a Rhododendron forest. It was pretty amazing. Probably would have been way more amazing if I'd had some of this honey on the way.

Here's an account of the effects written by Xenophon:

The number of bee-hives was extraordinary, and all the soldiers that ate of the combs, lost their senses, vomited, and were affected with purging, and none of them were able to stand upright; such as had eaten only a little were like men greatly intoxicated, and such as had eaten much were like mad-men, and some like persons at the point of death.

They lay upon the ground, in consequence, in great numbers, as if there had been a defeat; and there was general dejection. The next day no one of them was found dead; and they recovered their senses about the same hour that they had lost them on the preceding day; and on the third and fourth days they got up as if after having taken physic.

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I hadn't heard of this before, but apparently bees that primarily visit Rhododendrons produce honey that is "moderately toxic and narcotic."

I once was hiking up a hillside covered in a Rhododendron forest. It was pretty amazing. Probably would have been way more amazing if I'd had some of this honey on the way. 

Here's an account of the effects written by Xenophon:

> The number of bee-hives was extraordinary, and all the soldiers that ate of the combs, lost their senses, vomited, and were affected with purging, and none of them were able to stand upright; such as had eaten only a little were like men greatly intoxicated, and such as had eaten much were like mad-men, and some like persons at the point of death.

> They lay upon the ground, in consequence, in great numbers, as if there had been a defeat; and there was general dejection. The next day no one of them was found dead; and they recovered their senses about the same hour that they had lost them on the preceding day; and on the third and fourth days they got up as if after having taken physic.