Gray's Sporting Journal: The Fly Fishing Book. Volume Twenty Two, Issue 1. Feburary/March 2002.
The hills were green from fields of tea, or from mixed forests of spruce, oak and pine punctuated in the spring with the flowers of Rhododendrus ponticus [Rhododendron ponticum?], an indigenous flowering bush whose pollen made the honey the local people fed to Xenephon and the Ten Thousand when they passed this way circa 400 B.C., rendering them all drunk, even passed out. The honey is still produced here, still gets people drunk when they consume more than a bit (the Turks call it deli bal, or Mad Honey), another nice survival from ancient times.