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FLORAL CALENDAR
SUBMITTED BY
DEVADHARSNI R V
2017001018
B.Sc.,(Hons)
Agriculture
Definition:
A Floral calendar for beekeeping is a
time table that indicates to the
beekeeper the approximate date and
duration of the blossoming periods of
the important honey and pollen plants
in his area.
 FLORAL CALENDAR
S. Common Botanical Family Flowering Nectar Pollen N+P
No name name period

1 Coconut Cocos Palmaceae Round the P

nucifera year

2 Nerium Nerium Apocynaceae March to N+P

oleander April

3 Banana Musa spp Musaceae January to N+P

December

4 Moringa Moringa Moringaceae April to N

oleifera June

5 Pomegranate Punica Punicaceae March to P

granatum June
 FLORAL CALENDAR
S. Common Botanical Family Flowering Nectar Pollen N+P
No name name period

6 Gulmohar Delonix Fabaceae April to N

regia June

7 Tridax Tridax Asteraceae Round the N+P

procumbens year

8 Ash gourd Benincasa Cucurbitaceae December P

hispida to March

9 Tamarind Tamarindus Fabaceae April to N

indicus June

10 Neem Azadirachta Meliaceae March to N

indica April

11 Guava Psidium Myrtaceae March to N+P

guajava June
 POLLEN SOURCES

POMEGRANATE CUCURBITS
POLLEN SOURCES

COCONUT
 NECTAR SOURCES

MORINGA GULMOHAR
 NECTAR SOURCES

TAMARIND NEEM
NECTAR AND POLLEN
SOURCES

BANANA NERIUM
NECTAR AND POLLEN
SOURCES

GUAVA TRIDAX
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