Meet the Pacay: The Ice-Cream Bean Tree Behind Our Honey

Pacay trees grow throughout the forest surrounding our beehives. They are immense, reaching high into the canopy, and their flowering period can be surprisingly difficult to witness. Finding one covered in blossoms required patience and careful searching through the forest.

When the Pacay blooms, its branches become covered with delicate white flowers. Later, long green pods develop. Inside each pod is a soft, cottony white pulp—the reason Pacay is commonly known as the ice-cream bean tree.

Our bees live among these trees in the remote Pacific-coast mountains of Cabo Corrientes, far from cities and industry. Their honey reflects this naturally diverse forest and its brief, seasonal blossoms.

Every photograph on this page is original and was taken by Bosque Honey in the forest surrounding our beehives.

Jar of Bosque Honey beside an opened Pacay ice-cream bean pod and green leaves in the Cabo Corrientes forest.
Wild Pacay tree covered in white blossoms in the Cabo Corrientes forest.
Close view of white Pacay blossoms covering a forest tree.
Wild Pacay tree heavy with long green ice-cream bean pods.
Opened Pacay ice-cream bean pod showing its cottony white pulp.