Published 16:53 IST, June 13th 2020

Images of rare black guava take internet by storm, netizens intrigued

Forest officer shared his experience and “joy” of eating the rare variety of purportedly the Chilean black guava in deep burgundy or black colour.

Reported by: Zaini Majeed
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Ims of rare “Black Guavas” textured pink upon cross-section shared by  IFS officer Susanta Nanda on twitter has intrigued internet. Sharing his experience and “joy” of eating rare variety of purportedly  Chilean black guava in deep burgundy or black colour, Susanta wrote in caption that it was satisfying to taste reaped fruit from plant one nurtured mselves. Twitter was rendered astonished at look of “mysterious” guava as users poured in questions and triggered a discussion about “unique” fruit.  

With nearly 2k likes, post captured attention of people as y demanded to kw colour and view of fruit when it was cut. Susanta shared ar post revealing inner details of black fruit. While Guavas have a variety in black,  Chilean guava also is kwn as strawberry myrtle, and in purple kwn as  Cattley guava, strawberry guava, or cherry guava, which have skin that might be a yellow or dark purple, se colours in fruit besides green are uncommon to see.  Black guavas are hardly commercially available due to lack of market and are rare in family of fruit. A user commented with pictures of dark purple Guavas in his garden saying that he h grown some of se unique fruits as well.  

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Will attract 'lots of parrots'

Furr, a commenter said that he h stumbled upon black wheat grown by a farmer lately, and w post about “rare beautiful black guavas” was astonishing. Ar wrote that unique fruit due to its scent, perhaps, “will attract lots of parrots, Rufous Tree-pies & Bulbuls.” “Wow! It's such a privilege and such a fulfilling experience to eat fruit of tree that you have planted. - Any fruit tree! About black guava, I heard it for first time. Could you please help me to get  sapling ?” wrote third, miring rare fruit.  

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16:53 IST, June 13th 2020