Botanical origin of Green Propolis

Bees visit plants, collect resins and carry with them leaf fragments, glandular and non-glandular trichomes, crystals of oxalate of calcium, secretory disks and pollen grains that can determine the vegetal especies visited. The botanical origin of the green propolis produced in the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil) was characterized by means of microscopic analysis of its sediment. In it we could find glandular trichomes, non-glandular trichomes, fragments of epidermis, and pollen grains of Baccharis dracunculifolia.

		Here we have an Apis mellifera and its corbicula filled with vegetal fragments of Baccharis dracunculifolia.
		The vegetal fragments of Baccharis dracunculifolia found in bees' corbiculae were analyzed to ratify its origin.
		Leaf fragment of Baccharis dracunculifolia.
		Only fragments of Baccharis dracunculifolia were found in the microscopic analysis of the sediment of green propolis, and they were ratified by the anatomical study of the species.

Non-glandular Trichome		Glandular Trichome
The species Baccharis dracunculifolia has glandular and non-glandular trichomes, and fragments of epidermis of its vegetative apex as botanical markers. These markers are used to determine the botanical origin of green propolis