I recently purchased some manuka honey from Australia. I was attracted by the description of it as "An exotic honey with a thick consistency and rich, caramel-like flavour, collected from flowering manuka bushes." It is a very nice tasting honey.

Doing a Google search I discovered extraordinary health claims attributed to it. Having never heard of it, or of the manuka plant before I was wondering how popular it was in Australia and if it was widely used for it's purported medicinal properties.