The honey composition depends, basically, of the nectar composition of each vegetal species. This composition confer to it specific characteristics while that the climatic conditions and the beekeeper handling have lesser influence on these features. The present research, developed with samples of Apis mellifera honeys, collected directly of the producers from 84 locations of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, had the objective of verifying, on the basis of physico-chemical characteristics, as the samples of wild and Eucalyptus honeys are grouped. Amongst the 121 samples analyzed the wild and Eucalyptus honeys form distinct groups with basis of the physico-chemical characteristics, what confirms that the floral origin intervenes decisively with the honey characteristics. For the analysis of the main components, it can be verified that the characters that had more influenced in the groupings of the honey samples were the electric conductivity and amount of K, in axle X and the formol index and humidity, in axle Y.
Apis mellifera; honey composition; cluster analysis
